Most of the opening paragraphs of this section consits of a realistic descripton of the bunkhouse What detail suggests that the ranch hands have a romantic side?

Section Two's opening in "Of Mice and Men" describes an austere environment where each piece serves a specific function and is as utilitarian as possible; the door's latch was wood and even storage for personal belongings was provided by re-purposed Apple boxes. The romanticism of this ranch is found, however, in the worker's "little articles" Steinbeck cites filling the shelves, notably the Western magazines. They signify the impervious nature of human hope that makes even the most downtrodden Depression migrant worker reach to hardly believable stories of adventure and masculine fulfillment- out of reach but maybe not out of possibility.