After George and lennie have met candy, they soon after meet the boss. He is a little “stocky” man who wore “blue jean trousers, a flannel shirt, a black unbuttoned vest, and a black coat. His thumbs were stuck in his belt and on each side of a square steel buckle.” He also wore a brown Stetson hat and high heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a “labor man”. To George and lennie, he is very curious towards them. He asks lennie many questions but George scowled at lennie so that he would remember not to say anything and let George talk for him. He asked why he doesn’t let lennie speak for himself, and George answers to the boss that lennie isn’t very bright but is a good worker. The boss then gets suspicious why George is handling with a man like lennie, and thinks the reason is that George is trying to steal lennies bill.
After all George is not trying to steal lennies bill. He is helping lennie because they have such a strong friendship for each other and he is willing to help lennie although lennie irritates him.
The boss is important in this story because he is the boss of their new job; he can decide what can happen to George and lennie.
After some time, the son of the boss walks into the bunk house looking for his father. Curley is a young man who is thin, with a brown face, brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair. He wore a work glove on his left hand and high heeled boots just like his father.
His personality seems to be very arrogant, mean, and cold. But I think the reason he is like this is because he knows he is the bosses son, and he can control most things, so he shows off his power by making others feel weak and powerless compared to him.
He picks on lennie a lot, because he is a big man and Curley and small. The reason he is mean to lennie is because he is a small man compared to lennie, and he wants lennie to feel powerless to him. He knows that if lennie gets into a fight with him, everyone will take Curleys side because he is smaller. So Curley teases lennie as if he were “bait” to lennie for him to cause a big problem.
Lennie is capable of causing a big problem between him and Curley because right after Curley had left the bunk house. His wife came into the bunk house looking for him. And lennie describes her as “purty”. If anything happens between him and Curley’s wife then thare could be big problems for lennie and Curley and his new job.
Candy explains her as a “tart” because she gives the eye to slim, and Carlson.
Slim seems to be a very important character because he is very wise, everyone obeys him, and everyone listens to him. He is the “prince of the ranch”. He seems to be very trustworthy to George and lennie because he has conversations with them about their back rounds, making them feel more “at home”.
I think towards the end of the book, all these characters will be important because I predict that maybe something will happen between lennie and Curley’s wife; and that problems will occur between him and Curley. I think that because of the problems, Curley will manage to get lennie and George fired from their job and have legal troubles like they had in their last town. But slim and candy will stay by their side as they see to be friends. Maybe later on in the story they will become great friends and stick together.
