![]() ![]() Slim, a senior worker, is a force for sanity others are watchers of the passing parade. Candy, an old-timer oppressed by age, wants to join their bid for freedom, as does Crooks, the isolated black stable hand. The ranch owner's son Curley, with a new wife and a viciously jealous temperament, is a threatening force from the time of their arrival. It is an impractical dream, but circumstances put it within their reach, only to shatter it with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.Īround them swirl the other people involved in their final joust with destiny. They long for a small place of their own where George would have some independence and Lennie could indulge his love of small animals. The central characters, good-natured George and simple but blundering strongman Lennie, are nomadic farm labourers. ![]() The author's lifelong fealty to the working class, the kind of people he wrote about, is reflected and concentrated in this drama of hope denied. John Steinbeck's stage adaptation of his novella has been around for 65 years, and still it packs a satisfying dramatic punch. ![]()
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