Characters OMAM Flashcards
Lennie
“A huge man, shapeless of face”
“Dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws” - narrator
“Lennie continued to snort into the pool” - narrator
“Good boy, that’s swell” - George
“Why do you [pup] got to get killed?” - Lennie
Slim
“Like the others he wore blue jeans and a short denim jacket” - narrator
“I can see Lennie ain’t a bit mean” - slim
“Prince of the ranch” - narrator
“Slim’s opinions were law” - narrator
“I hardly never seen two guys travel together” - slim
Crooks
“N*****”
“You go on get outta my room” - crooks
“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody” - crooks
“I read plenty of books out here” - crooks
“Nobody never gets to heaven” - crooks
Curley’s wife
“Tart”
“She got the eye” - candy
“The left all the weak ones here” - curley’s wife
“We ain’t got nothing to say to you at all” - candy
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy” - curley’s wife
George
“Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world” - George
“You can’t get rid of him (Lennie)” - George
“He ain’t no cuckoo”- george
“If I was alone, I could live so easy” - george
Curley
“Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy” - candy
“Yella as a frog belly” - Carlson
“Curley ain’t giving nobody a chance” - candy
“Maybe that’s why curley’s pants is full of ants” - candy
Candy
“Stick-like wrist, but no hand”
“Candy looked for help from face to face”
“I ought to of shot that dog myself”
“Old candy”
“I ain’t got the poop no more”
