The story, Of Mice and Men is about George and Lennie, two migrant workers who go to work on a farm, they have a dream to own their own farm and start working but Curly starts a fight with Lennie, Lennie wins by crushing his hand. Candy then joins their dream about owning their own farm. Lennie kills a pup while they boys are playing a game, curly wife comes in and starts flirting with Lennie, Lennie starts stroking her hair and kills her. He runs away, but George finds him and kills him.
Lennie and Isaac have similarities and differences. The similarities are that they both are not very smart. “He ain’t no cuckoo, He’s dumb as hell, But he ain’t crazy” More on Lennie’s side because he has a disability, so he relies on people but mostly George “what is it George”. Both Lennie and Isaac are forgetful which leads them into trouble.
They also have some differences, Lennie lives in California, and Isaac lives in England. They also have different jobs Lennie is a migrant worker and Isaac works in a shop.
Lennie and Isaac both rely on people, Lennie relies on George and Isaac relies on his mother and wife. Throughout the two stories both Lennie and Isaac rely on these people to help them through. It creates sympathy for them like that other people apart from the ones they rely on cannot understand them. Isaac relies on he’s mum to tell him what her already knows “someone is trying to kill me”. Lennie relies on George so he can get a job.
The role of the woman at the time of the stories were told was that they didn’t have any say in anything and that there job was just to look after the man. In Of Mice and Men the women in the story does not have a name she is known as “Curly’s wife”, and doesn’t have any say in anything. Also the views on Curly’s wife are only given on the boys point of view.
In The Ostler his wife doesn’t have a name and the views in her are in Isaac’s view not anyone else’s. This is like she has not been given a voice so she doesn’t have a chance to explain why she tried to kill Isaac.
The story Of Mice and Men is a third person view, which can be biased because the author in chapter two gives a description of Curly’s wife, which is biased. “The boss was expecting you last night” This is biased because the author is only expressing his feelings. The Ostler is written to the landlord’s view so it will be biased. This is because the Landlord’s is a friend of Isaac so he only tells Isaac good points, and none of his bad ones.
It shows sympathy for Lennie by only showing his bad ways not both sides, this is due to the way the author wrote the book. It shows sympathy for Isaac by showing only one side of him showing that he is a bit slow, it would be fairer if you had another side to him.
