Of Mice and Men (opera) George, at the urging of Candy and Lennie, reads the want ad aloud to them once again as the curtain falls. SCENE ONE. Lennie is disconsolate at having inadvertently killed his puppy, and is hiding it in the loft of the barn when Curley's wife enters, carrying a suitcase and obviously preparing to leave the ranch. She and Lennie begin to confide their dreams and fantasies to each other, neither aware the other is speaking: hers, a glamorous career as a movie star; his, to have pets on his farm. Lennie tells her of his love of stroking soft things,
The Displaced Person The Displaced Person "The Displaced Person" is a novella by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work and her own family hired a displaced person after World War II. The story takes place on a farm in Georgia, just after World War II in the 1940s. The owner of the farm, Mrs. McIntyre, contacts a Catholic priest to find her a "displaced person" to work as a farm hand. The priest finds a Polish refugee named