Imagery - Quotations
English Lit: Edexcel IGCSE Of Mice & Men, topic 6.2.1
Imagery - Quotations
Steinbeck focuses on creating detailed descriptions of characters and settings. This allows the reader to picture the characters and settings very clearly, this is known as imagery.
Description of Salinas River
- “The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.” (Section 1).
Description of the bunkhouse
- “The bunkhouse was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.” (Section 2).
Description of Crooks' barn
- “And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions.” (Section 4).
Description of Lennie
- Lennie walks “the way a bear drags his paws” (Section 1).
Description of Slim
- Has a “hatchet face” (Section 2).
- A hatchet is a small, sharp axe, and so this image suggests that Slim’s facial features are hard, sharp and clearly defined.