Of Mice and Men (opera) pets in the future, and then pleads with George to recount once again their dream. George, to humor Lennie, tells in great detail about the house and farm they hope to have one day soon. Lennie, unable to restrain his excitement, joins George in the telling. As the two men happily settle down for the night, a police siren whines ominously in the distance. SCENE TWO. George and Lennie arrive at a ranch the following day, having been hired by Curley, the disagreeable, contentious young owner of the ranch. Before their arrival, Curley and his wife, a cheaply pretty and
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