Of Mice and Men

Interpretation

Interpretation Content
  • psychological way
  • each person has got 2 sides
    • Ego = person's thinking (leader)
    • Id = physical side (body)
  • transfer to the book
    • George = Ego
    • Lennie = Id
    • When George is away, Lennie gets in trouble
  • Massage
    • There must be a balance between them
  • biological way
  • Symbiosis
    • two animals/plants need each other to live
  • transfer to the book
    • Lennie needs George to help him out of trouble
    • George needs Lennie, he's his only friend, without hin he'd feel alone
    • George needs Lennie to keep the ranchdream alive
    • being together makes them special because other workers travels around on theis own
  • biblical way
  • Cain killed Abel (brother)
  • Lennie is like a little brother for George
  • George, like Cain, killed his brother
  • like Cain, George will have to travel around alone
  • Cain and George can't reach their aim without their brothers, George can't get the ranch and Cain can't go into Eden
28.06.2006