Of Mice and Men: Chapter 2 Summary

 

Setting

     *Then Bunkhouse

          - The begining of this chapter describes in detail as a rectangular room, whitewashed,

            with small windows, and eight bunks

          - Beside the bunks are apple boxes for the mens' belongings

          - There is a card table in the center

          - We are introduced, not by name, to everyone in the bunk house

 

         

 

The Arival of George and Lennie

          - They arive to the bunk house late which was not a good start

          - They are assigned to their bunks but they are skeptical about them because there are lice

            killers in them.

          - The old man tries to re-assure them that the lice killers are there just in case.

 

The Stable Buck

          - We find out that is the only black person there

          - George and Lennie find out that because they were late, the stable buck gets hell for it

          - The guys in the bunk tell George and Lennie that he is extremely nice

 

Curley is Introduced

          - This is where we are first introduced to Curley as he complains about george and Lennie

            being late

          - He starts to Question Lennie about why he can not answer back to him

          - Curley thinks that George is taking Lennie's pay

          - The guys in the bunk believe that Curley is an angry person, the reason being that he

            is a small guy that is mad at big guys

          - We also find out he is married.

 

Curley's Wife

          - This is the first time we hear of and see Curley's wife

          - She is never given a name

          - She has "the eye" and she is very pretty

          - She is a huge flirt.

Slim

          - We get to hear a little more about him in this chapter, like we find out his actual name

          - We learn that he is the jerlkine skinner

          - And we learn that he has a dog that just gave birth to puppies

 

* We end this chapter with Curley looking for  his wife and George is all frazzled because he does not like the fact that Curley was trying to give Lennie trouble.