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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 ....

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... The scene I am going to describe is at the end of chapter 3 of the book. It mostly involves Lennie, Curly and George, 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 place to live in, one of the only ...