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  2. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck: He is a migrant worker with learning and communication disabilities. He relies on his best friend for support. [30] 1937 Candy Candy is an old man with a stooped posture and no right hand, which he lost in an accident on the ranch. 1937 Crooks Crooks has a crooked spine from an accident with a horse.

  3. Of Mice and Men - Wikipedia

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    Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California , searching for jobs during the Great Depression .

  4. Free indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]

  5. Of Mice and Men (play) - Wikipedia

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    Of Mice and Men is a play adapted from John Steinbeck's 1937 novel of the same name. The play, which predates the Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Awards, earned the 1938 New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play.

  6. Foil (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.

  7. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    John Steinbeck, in his 1937 book Of Mice and Men, has Curley's wife, who is never named, which shows that she is just a stock character to emphasize this point. Mrs Hale in the 1916 play Trifles; Grace Archer, Jill Archer, Peggy Woolley, and Clarrie Grundy in the BBC radio series The Archers running since 1950s; Female clown (Hispanic)

  8. Category:Of Mice and Men - Wikipedia

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    Of Mice and Men (1939 film) Of Mice and Men (1992 film) G. George and Junior; H. Hoppy Go Lucky; O. Of Rice and Hen; Of Mice and Men (opera) P. Of Mice and Men (play ...

  9. Of Mice and Men (1992 film) - Wikipedia

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    Of Mice and Men is a 1992 American period drama film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name and is the fourth film adaptation of the novella. The first was the 1939 film of the same name , the second was in 1968 , the third was in 1981, and the fourth was in 1992.