Just someone to talk to
Nothing more, nothing less
Any little words at all
Take away the loneliness
Across the two dossier files the deep mournful tone of both their voices, the words
they sing, and the style of the music is suggestive of a duet between George and
Curly’s wife.
Interestingly the character Lennie’s voice is limited to a request - he asks George to
sing to him, which he does. The character George literally ‘speaks for’ the character
Lennie. The dossier on the character Lennie contains two further audio clips in the
form of commentary about the character Lennie, one from an academic, and the other
from Steinbeck’s partner. In other words the character Lennie is talked about more
than ‘he’ talks.
Range of Modes and Links
The range of modes, the number of links to other screens, and the number of visual
objects (photograph, visual objects, written text) in each character dossier file varies.
These factors, mode, link, and visual objects are a visual indicator of the importance
of a character.
The widest range of modes (voice, image, and writing) is used to display the
information in the dossiers of the characters Curly’s wife, Lennie, and George. The
modes, visual objects and links of these three characters are shown in comparison
with the Curly in Table 4.2.
The dossiers of the characters Curly’s wife, Lennie, and George include more than
twice as many visual objects on screen as the other character dossiers. The visual
objects represent aspects of each character, as discussed earlier. Through these
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