Chapter 1: Quotations

Question 1

The rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover

Answer 1

Animal imagery suggests how George and Lennie bring violence and disturbance with them wherever they go. Foreshadows how they will never achieve their dream of living in harmony with nature.

Question 2

They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other

Answer 2

Paralanguage of George and Lennie shows that they have a relationship like a father and son.

Question 3

Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pales eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear walks

snorting into the water like a horse

Answer 3

Antithetical characterization between George and Lennie.

Lennie’s characterization suggested in the use of animal imagery

Question 4

Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly

Answer 4

Lennie looks up to George like a son to his father

Question 5

Think i’d let you carry your own work card

Answer 5

Fatherly figure George, taking care of Lennie

Lennie is irresponsible

Question 6

If i was alone I could live so easy

Answer 6

Sometimes George is angry with Lennie. Repeated refrain, he says that life would be better without Lennie but he is not being serious. Ironic, as at the end of the novel he ends up lonely after shooting Lennie

Question 7

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. With us it ain’t like that. We got a future, I got you to look after, and you got me to look after you

Answer 7

Contrast of their relationship to the other workers on the ranch. Thematic dichotomy of Loneliness and Companionship

Question 8

live off the fatta the lan’

Answer 8

First reference to the dream ranch, George and Lennie’s verision of the American Dream.