The light was growing soft in the barn

Now it´s Curley's wife who relieves herself with Lennie and tells him that if some things had not been distorted she wouldn´t be there.

72 horas

Dear Fran,

Possibly the best thing that has happened to me in these last two years has been to join the painting workshop. I am living a kind of second youth that, unlike the first one, is providing me with experiences that I had never imagined before. Already the fact of going once a week to Carlos's workshop and being two and a half hours changing impressions and laughs — how little we laughed when we were young! — with my classmates, time passes without realizing it.

Don´t come in a place where you´re not wanted

There were still the noses of the males perceiving the smell of female when the narrator introduces us to Crooks. Crooks is a stable buck and also cripple, therefore he was the worker who spent more time in the same job. Steinbeck makes a correlation of the most naive? natural? between being disabled and moving from one ranch to another, from one city to another. Also, as he was accumulating personal belongings — he had a room for himself — this was a real nuisance every time he had to undertake a transfer.

You can have a pup if you want to

George is honest with Slim and tells him why he´s with Lennie. It was a responsibility that George assumed when Lennie´s aunt died and he was helpless. Although George admits that ‘Lennie´s a God damn nuisance most of the time’ has got used to his company. Somehow they complement each other. What one doesn´t have, the other has. And then he tells Slim what happened at Weed.