Of mice and men symbols
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- The river: The river in this story symbolizes a safe pace. It is the place where Goeorge tells Lennie to hide if he gets in any trouble, and it represents protection against extern factors. In the end, it can even turn into a metaphor for heaven.
- Rabits: Rabbits are soft animals, they can't defend themselves against a mojor outside threat. In the novel, they represent vulnerability and softness. They can also act as an ironic factor, because eventhough Lennie is also very innocent he ends up harming them by accident.
- Candy's dog death: The death of Candy's dog represents the way society worked at the time, and the cruelness of it. If you couldn't work, and you couldn't be useful, you where discarted. This can also act as a premonition of what may soon happen to Candy himself.
- Crooks: Crooks is the only black character in the book, and he is discriminated and isolated from the others because of this. Crooks represents racial scrimination and different prejudices of the era.
- Snake: There is a mention of a snake in the first chapter of the novel, right before the characters enter their new working place. Snakes, not just in the novel, but through many cultures and eras symbolize evil, and they indicate something bad will happen soon. This proves to be true in later chapters of the story.
- George and Lennie's dream: This dream symbolizes hope, and it is also a reflect of what many people lived at the time. The dream symbolizes a brighter future, and freedom, something they all want but maybe will never get.
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