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• 'hundreds of men come by on the road and on the ranches'


  poverty, daily life on the ranch
• 'And I ain't so bright either'


  poverty, uses informal language to show they are uneducated
• 'water snake slipped along the pool'


  describes how perfect life was without humans
• 'drops in close to the hillside banks and runs deep and green' 


  describing the setting, story starts and ends here
• 'A guy on the ranch don't never listen nor he don't ask no questions'


  Candy, daily life on the ranch
• 'denim jacket with brass buttons'


  poverty
• 'Me and you'll go in and get a drink'


  carlson after Lennie's death
• 'I could've went with the shows'


  Curley's wife, dreams
• 'A guy needs someone near him'


  Crooks, dreams
• 'they ain't got nothing to look ahead to'


  George, death
• 'Crook's face lighted up with pleasure in his torture'


  power
• 'And even in the open one stayed behind the other'


  power