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Thank you so much for this blog! I love this book and the movie adaptation was great. I have a lot of feelings about the characters (George and Curley's wife in particular) and nobody else who I talk to seems to be as enthralled by these characters as I do! So THANK YOU!

yess!!!! thanks!!! i love the depth of characters, they all represent oppressed groups and its all very good very good indeed

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who are your favourite and least favourite characters in OMAM?

well mine is slim and admin curleys is..curley i think? (admin curley might edit this)

but i love all the characters especially curleys wife 

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Do you think Curley was nice to his wife? Or that he neglected/abused her? How do you think their first time meeting went? Sorry if this is much or too difficult to answer, I'd just like to hear the admin 's opinions.

Sorry for this late answer! 

Definitely not. Though it's not stated whether he abuses her I think we can make a pretty good educated guess. Curley's wife was a trophy wife after all and had no respect or rights on the ranch (she isn't even given a name), so personally, I would assume he did abuse her, having such a fiery temper (not to mention that vaseline glove).  Plus, during the time period, domestic abuse would be more 'normal' [ This ad is from the 1950s, 30-40 years AFTER when OMAM is set] so either way it's highly probable. 

In the novel, Curley's Wife admits how she met Curley, saying she was angry at her mother for stealing a letter (which i don't believe was ever sent) and ran away, meeting Curley and marrying him immediately. So I would suppose he was very flattering and charming up until he got to take her home and show her off to his father and the other ranch workers, as a prize. She was only about 15-16 years old and was very naive, taking everything Curley said as the undoubtable truth and marrying him as soon as possible. 

Or that's my opinion anyway! Thanks for asking, and again, sorry for such a late reply!

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we're very sorry for the lack of updates, everything going to plan there'll be some more stuff up later this week! If you have any suggestions or quotes you'd like us to make, feel free to submit them or send us an ask. Thanks for all the support as well ;u; ~admin slim

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What do you think happened to George after the ending of the book?

Personally, Anon, you could always look at it and say, George would’ve went off with Candy and got the dream, he could’ve became best buddies with Slim and went off with him. I’ve even heard theories that George and Crooks went off together, but is that what Steinbeck was actually trying to say in Of Mice and Men?

The whole point of it is that ranch workers are expendable and worthless, but the one thing that makes George different from every other ranch worker is that he has Lennie, someone to talk to “because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you” so when he dies, there’s nothing special about George and he becomes just another ranch worker. What I THINK happened? George spends the rest of his life working up a stake and blowing it, day in day out. Realistically, it’s a pretty bleak future for George.

But if you asked me what I WANT, however, I’d say him and Candy went off together and got the farm and had a great time.

OR you could be our darling Admin Curley and I quote: "He got depressed. Screwed Slim. Got even more depressed."

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Regarding the last anon's ask, since you have a headcanon name for Curley's Wife, what about the other characters who aren'ts given an explicit name? Like Slim, Curley, Whit, Candy, Crooks...

Sorry this took a while to answer! After some thought and research I came up with:

Candy = Claude = Name meaning is usually given as limp or lame, so a connection to his age/hunched over back characteristics

Curley = Chester = A common suffix used on Roman militant forts- when he walks into a scene the atmosphere immediately gets tense and more dangerous, like a military fort possibly.

Whit = William = A common name altogether, goes with his character who, bar a few scenes, largely blends into the background as ‘just another ranch worker’. Also, William means ‘will + helmet’ or protection, which would match the scene where he shows the magazine to Slim-he is quite young and naive, and I don’t really think he understands how harsh his reality is just yet (‘protected’) and he uses these magazines as a form of escaping his boring life (‘helmet’).

Crooks = Clarence = Means bright or someone with strong views.

Slim = Samuel = This name is mentioned several times in the Bible, so would link back to his description of being ‘God-like’

I made sure to choose names that began with the same letter, these were nicknames so they’d have to have come from somewhere! Also, they are all backed up here - I wanted to make sure the names were relevant to the time period while also being common enough to suit the nature of the story - these were ordinary, poor men, after all, their names wouldn’t have been all dressed up and fancy.

Thanks for asking, I hadn't thought about it before this!