Crooks Flashcards
Personality
Respectful- ‘Mr Slim’
‘A tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code’
‘Don’t come in a place where you’re not wanted’
‘You got George… S’pose you didn’t have nobody… how’d you like that?’
Physical appearance
‘Nigger’ ‘I’m black’
‘Cripple’ ‘Crooked back’
‘Thin, pain tightened lips’
‘Face was lined with deep black wrinkles’
Power status on the ranch
‘Well you keep your place nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny’
‘He was more permanent than the other men’
‘A little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn’
Dream
‘The white kids come to play at our place, an’ sometimes I went to play with them’
‘My old man had a chicken ranch’
View of friendship
‘You got no right to come in my room’ -hostile
‘Come on in and set a while’
‘A guy can talk to you an’ be sure you won’t go blabbing’
Relationship with Lennie
‘You might as well set down’
Relationship with Slim
‘Nice fella’ shows Slim is nicer to him
Relationship with the boss
‘He give the stable buck hell’
Curley’s wife
‘Listen nigger’
‘I could get you strung up on a tree so easy’
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‘Crooks had reduced himself to nothing’