George Flashcards
“Lennie, for God’s sake don’t drink so much”…”if I was alone I could live so easy”
Frustrated
Controlling/protective for a good cause
Lennie is a burden, can’t achieve American dream because of him however Lennie also gives George the motivation to try and achieve American dream so that George can allow Lennie to live a good life
“She’s a jail bait”
Foreshadowing-aware of the dangers Curley wife will cause-warns Lennie, doesn’t want Lennie to get close to anyone to avoid trouble
Jail bait-slang for a person who is younger than legal age of consent for sexual activity and usually appears older with the implication that a person above the age of consent might find them sexually attractive-Lennie gets attracted to Curley wife’s dress
“Guys like is, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world”…”with us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to”
Presenting themselves as better than the others on the ranch as they have someone with them
George is saying that the others are lonely but George and Lennie ain’t because they got each other
Isolated themselves from other men so they can just do what they came for (earn money to buy land) and move on
“We got a future”-suggesting that friendship will allow them to achieve American dream. In contrast Curley wife doesn’t have friendship and she fails American dream
George is essentially saying that he’d like to lock Lennie up. But, with a million mice to pet
“I wish I could put you in a cage with about a million mice an’ let you have fun.” His anger left him suddenly. He looked across the fire at Lennie’s anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames.”
George is essentially saying that he’d like to lock Lennie up. But, with a million mice to pet-can be interpreted to mean that George wants Lennie to have freedom by petting mice and this can be achieved by American dream
“We’d just go to her,” George said. “We wouldn’t ask nobody if we could. Jus’ say, “We’ll go to her,’ an’ we would.”
When George starts to actually starting to believe that the farm might happen, he is most overwhelmed buy the idea that they can do whatever they like and that they won’t have to follow anyone’s orders.
“I thought you was mad at me George” “No,” Said George. “No, Lennie. I aint mad. I never been mad, an I aint now. That’s a thing I want ya to know”
George saying his goodbyes to Lennie before he kills him
George shows his love to Lennie, and trys to say sorry in the best way he can. It is unclear wether he says this to make Lennie feel better, or for Himself to feel better
George is spending one last moment with his best friend, just like in the beginning of the book. Both of them, laying in the grass, by the river. The sun shining on them. George perhaps is trying to remember what It was like in the beginning of the book. Lennie had killed no one, and he didn’t have a gun in his hand, wishing that he could go back except that he couldn’t so he had to do what he had to do
