Of Mice And Men 2
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Of Mice and Men takes place in the late 1930's and the early 1940's. The
exact location of the book is in a place south of Soledad on a ranch in the
Salinas Valley which is in California. You can imagine that during this time
there wasn't much to do. In fact Soledad, the place where the story is
lo ....          
Middle of paper
....  but Slim, Candy and
 Carlson were there too. The setting of this scene was in the bunkhouse in the
 ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the
 bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were
 whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
 were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
 showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse was
 not the most beautiful pla ....          
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          Word count: 1933 
 Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)