Character quotes

Question 1

Lennie

Answer 1

1. “George… I done another bad thing”
2. “I don’t like this place George. this ain’t no good place, I wanna get out of here”
3. I” don’t want no flights”
4. “why do you got to get killed, you ain’t so little like mice”

Question 2

Georgeeeeeee

Answer 2

1. “guys like us to work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world”
2. “no Lennie I ain’t mad I never been mad and ain’t now, that thing I want you to know”
3. “I could get along so easy and nice if I didn’t have you on my tail, I could live so nice and maybe have a girl”
4. “Hell no, he just scared her, I’d be scared too if he grab me but he never hurt her, he just wanted to touch that red dress like he wants to pet the pups all the time”

Question 3

Crooks

Answer 3

1. “Guys don’t come into a coloured mans room very much”
2. this is just a nigger talking, and a busted-back nigger, so it don’t mean nothing see?
3. “you got no right to come in my room, this here’s my room, nobody got any right in here but me”
4. “George can tell you screwy things and it don’t matter” its just talking is just being with another guy that’s all.

Question 4

Curly’s wife

Answer 4

1. “you bindle bumps think you so damn good, what do ya think I am, a kid?”
2. “I coulda made something of myself”
3. “well you keep your place nigger, I could get you strung up in a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
4. “I’m lonely”

Question 5

Curley

Answer 5

1. “come on, you big bastard get up on your feet no big sonofabitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show you who’s yella”
2. candy-“he hates big guys.he alla time picking scraps with big guys. kind of like he’s mad because he ain’t a big guy”
3. “i’ll kill that big sonofabitch myself, I’ll shoot I’m in the guts”
4. candy-“well curly’s pretty handy” - foreshadowing

Question 6

Candy

Answer 6

1. “I ought to have shot that dog myself”
2. “when they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me”
3. “we know what we’ve got, and we don’t care weather you know it or not”
4. ”s’pose I went in with you guys…I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some”

Question 7

Slim

Answer 7

Slim looked through George and beyond him. “Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

Slim sighed. “Well, I guess we got to get him…” (5.93)