Why Does Steinbeck Use Animal Imagery In Of Mice And Men

The book “ Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck In the book “ Of Mice and men” The use of animal imagery and Working class people develop the theme. John Steinbeck uses animal imagery to describe lennie’s personality . Lennie is very forgetful at times and he’s also slow at processing information as well. “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water.” p.g.3 This is one way John uses animal imagery. Later in the book Candy owns a dog that is smelly and crippled and the other people in the bunkhouse don't want to sleep with a smelly animal so Slim and Carlson got permission from Candy to take his dog and put him to rest, they shot candy’s dog in the back of the head. This is parallel to when george had shot lennie in the back of his head too. John Steinbeck could be comparing lennie to a dog because they both were shot.

Candy, George , Lennie, Slim, and Carlson all live in the bunkhouse except for Crook’s he lives in the barn because they don't want to sleep with a black man because he stinks and back then they were not segregated at this time. Crook had said this to Lennie “ Well go see your pup, Then. Don’t come in a place that you're not wanted” p.g.69 Crook knows that he can't be with Lennie so this is why he said that but Lennie is slow at processing this information. Crook’s didn't want to be bothered at this time to he would rather be in his room alone, cause when lennie was looking around he had seen Crook’s has Glasses, A Dictionary, And Some Dirty books he had these things because he was his own independent person. The workers on the farm know that Crook has his job to do and they have there job to do, this tells us that working class people were not treated the