Blog for 4/20/15

Of Mice and Men
Prompt: Describe the atmosphere of the ranch and bunkhouse. Be sure to include characteristics of different characters that were formally or informally introduced to us in this chapter. Support your choice with textual evidence and interpretation.
Why doesn't Curley's wife have a name?   What message, if anything, is John Steinbeck  trying to send by not giving her a first name?  Support your choice with textual evidence and interpretation.

          The ranch and bunkhouse have nice and bad atmosphere. It brings a bad atmosphere because they have an really old half blind dog and they have something for head lice. What I'm thinking is that they used to have head lice so they used that to take them off, but what if some people still have head lice? That would be a really bad place to be in and work. Some characters also bring a bad atmosphere. An example is the boss's son, Curley, he brings a bad atmosphere. He brings a bad atmosphere because he has something against Lennie only cause Lennie is taller than him. In the text is said, "Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy."

          Though the ranch and bunkhouse also have a nice atmosphere. The nice atmosphere due to the newly introduced characters in this chapter. Most of the character are really nice to Lennie and George. An example of a character that brings a nice atmosphere is the boss. They say that the boss might get angry sometimes but he's a good person. In the book it said,"Brang a gallon of whiskey right in here." To celebrate Christmas the boss brought a gallon of whiskey for the workers. That shows that the boss puts a nice atmosphere.

           I think that Curly's wife doesn't have a name because of two reasons. The first reason she might not have a name is because maybe Steinbeck couldn't think of a right name to give her. Steinbeck could have ran out of names and that's why he didn't give her a name. The second reason is because maybe she's trying to hide her identity from someone. Maybe she could've done some things in the past and now she wants to one to know about her name so that can't say anything.

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