1. L.O: To consider how space
represents mood in the novella.
SPACE AND
ANTITHESIS IN
‘OF MICE AND MEN’
2. Task
• We need to consider locations and places in
the text.
• Today we will look at space and room.
• We will focus on chapter 2 and consider how
space is used and how this reflects on
characters.
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5. Find a quote using…
• Death imagery
• Lists and long sentences
• Any language that suggests the room is
small/cramped
• What possessions the men have.
• Any language that suggests if this is a
masculine or feminine room?
• What effect does this have on a reader?
6. Questions
1. Find a quote that shows the bunkhouse is like a coffin.
What does this forebode in the novel?
2. Does the Bunkhouse fit with the description of what the
American Dream is made out to be?
8. Antithesis
• What does this term mean?
• When two opposite words or two opposite situations
are put together.
• Antithesis happens a lot in Of Mice and Men; and
happens in Chapter 2.
9. Review
• Is the Bunkhouse a description of what
the American Dream is made out to be?
• What does this suggest about the
American Dream?
10. Review
• Is the Bunkhouse a description of what
the American Dream is made out to be?
• What does this suggest about the
American Dream?
