Loneliness Flashcards
1
Q
P1 - Crooks loneliness
A
“Nigger”
only reason crook s still has his job is because it was compensation for the injury he acquired working on the ranch.
“the terrible protective dignity of the negro”.
“if you…guys would want a hadn to work for nothing, just his keep, why I’d come nad lend a hand”
“I wouldn’t want ot go to no place like that”
2
Q
P2 - Curley’s wife’s loneliness
A
“tart”, “jailbait” and a “bitch”
perceived to be a ‘temptress’ and ‘scarlet woman’,
“she’s got the eye”,
“You gotta husban. You got no call foolin around with other guys, causin’ trouble’”.
Wasn’t gonna stay no place where i could get no where.. So I married curley” She even says to lennie that she “don’ like curley” and “he ain’t a nice fella”.
