motifs

Of mice and men has many motifs but one in particular stood out to me. The corrupting power of women. In the book they rarely talk about lennie's aunt clara but she corrupted lennie in a way. she made him develope this bad habit of petting soft things because when he was little she gave him things like velvet and silk and as he got older he got stronger and he would kill things.

Also they way they talk about flophouses which is in other words a stripclub of some sort. the guys in the story always talk about going there and when curly goes there in the middle of the night his wife finds lennie and tries to talk to him and she starta to say that she just wants some company and someone to talk to because she is so lonely.

Which leads to curlys wife who tries to seduct the men on the ranch and someone who gets the poeple who work on the ranch in trouble. she comes around the men with her soft her and soft skin she tries to seduct Lennie and make him talk to her when he was not supposed to. She comes in the barn when lennie is alone and makes him talk to her and then she lets him touch her hair which leads to her death and gets lennie in trouble.