What does strap him down and put him in a cage mean in the quote? "Curley's gonna want to shoot him. Curley's still mad about his hand. An' s'pose they lock him up and strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain't no good, George."

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that