George

• Loneliness

• American dream

• Fear

• Entrapment

Lennie

• American dream

• Discrimination

• Fear

• Friendship

Candy

• Loneliness

• Discrimination

• Fear

• American dream

Crooks

• Racism

• Loneliness

• Disability

• Fear

• Entrapment

• American dream

Curley

• Fear (his masculinity)

• Entrapment

• Nature of American social status

• Power

Curley’s wife

• Entrapment

• Loneliness

• Prejudice

• Failure

Slim

• Friendship

• Understanding

• Loneliness