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Quote that describes Lennie as a bear

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“The way a bear drags his paws”

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Quote that suggests Lennie is child like by imitating George

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Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly.

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Quote about Lennie forgetting his own aunt

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Don’t even remember who that lady was. That was your own Aunt Clara

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Quote that shows Lennie is large and clumsy by killing the fluffy pets Aunt Clara gave him

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An’ she stopped givin’ ’em to ya. You always killed ’em.

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Quote when george said Lennie’s name (Lennie Small)

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His name’s Lennie Small

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Quote where Lennie answered the boss and nearly lost the job

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You was gonna leave your big flapper shut and leave me do the talkin’

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Quote where Lennie said he doesn’‘t want to harm anyone

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I don’t want no trouble (repeated twice)

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Quote where George told lennie to say hide in the brush repeatedly

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Say it over to yourself, Lennie, so you won’t forget it

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Quote where Lennie said Curley’s wife is pretty

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Gosh, she was purty

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Quote where George told Lennie off for only remembering things about rabits

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The hell with the rabbits. That’s all you ever can remember is them rabbits

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Quote where George told Lennie off for feeling the girl’s dress shows he has obsessions with fluffy things

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Jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress - jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse

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Quote where Crooks told slim Lennie was messing around with Slim’s pup

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That big new guy’s messin’ around your pups out in the barn.

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Quote showing Curley’s wife’s being a tart?

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‘Well I think Curley’s married…a tart.’

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Quotes showing Lennie being kind and gentle

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‘Lennie never done it in meanness’

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1 Quotes showing Lennie’s Love of the dream

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‘George, how long’s it gonna be till we get that little place an’ live on the fatta the lan-an’rabbits’

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Quotes showing Candy is attatched to his dog

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‘Had him since he was a pup’
‘I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ough to let no stranger shoot my dog.

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2 Quotes showing Candy is lonely and insecure

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‘Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunk houses they’ll put me on the county.’

‘When they can me here I whist somebody’d shoot me.’

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2 Quotes showing Crooks being cynical about other people’s dreams of owning land

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‘I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.

‘You guys comin’ in an’ settin’. What she says is true.’

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2 Quotes showing Crooks being defensive, lonley and isolated

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‘For a moment Crooks did not see him, but on raising his eyes he stiffened and a scowl come over his face.’

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2 Quotes showing Croooks being blamed by others because of racial prejudice

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‘If I say something, why it’s just a n***er sayin’ it.’

‘Guys don’t come into a coloured mans room very much.’

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2 Quotes showing Croooks is lonely and frustrated

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‘Nobody got any rights in here but me.’

‘A guys goes nuts if he ain;t got nobody’

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2 Quotes showing Croooks is old, black and physically disabled

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‘Give the stable buck hell? Ya see, the stable bucks a n***er’, ‘Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him.’

‘His body was bent over to the left by his crook spine and his eyes lay deep in his head’

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2 Quotes showing Curley’s being jealous and insecure about his wife.

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‘Glove’s fulla Vaseline.’
‘‘Any you guys seen my wiofe?’ he demanded.’

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2 Quotes showing Curley’s position of power on the ranch?

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‘Like the boss, he wore high-heeled boots.’
‘That’s the boss’s son,’

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2 Quotes showing Curley’s wife being regarded as a tart and violence and cruelty towards her?

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‘You ain’t no good now, you lousy tart’
‘I think Curley’s married…a tart’

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2 Quotes showing Curley’s wife’s flirtatiousness

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‘Her lips were slightly parted. She breathed strongly, as though she had been running’

‘Well I think Curley’s married…A tart.’

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2 quotes showing slim is a leader (liked and respected)

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‘He moved into the room, and he moved with majest only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen’

‘His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject’

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3 quotes showing Candy is elderly and disabled

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‘Stoop shouldered old man’
‘Round stick-like wrist, but no hand’
‘I lost my hand right here on this ranch’

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3 quotes showing Carlson being pushy and insensitive to the needs of others

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‘What ya meen Slim.’

‘Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys’

‘Let’s get it over with,’ ‘We can’t sleep with him stinkin’ around in here.

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3 Quotes showing Curley’s being an aggresive bully with bad temper?

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‘Curely lashed his body around’
‘His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hand closed into fists.’
‘Then Curley’s rage exploded.’

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3 Quotes showing Curley’s being unkind to Lennie and George

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‘Curley lashed his body around’.
‘By Christ, he’s gotta talk when he’s spoken to.’
‘Curley stepped over to Lennie like a terrier. ‘What the hell you laughin at.’

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3 Quotes showing Curley’s wife’s attractiveness

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’ Her lips were slightly parted. She breathed storngly, as though she had been running’
‘She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young.’
‘A girl was standing there looking in. She had full rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up.’

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3 Quotes showing Curley’s wife’s being unhappily married to Curelys

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‘I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella.’

‘And because she had cofided in him, she moved closer to Lennie.’

‘I get lonely,’ she said. “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley.’

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3 Quotes showing Curley’s wife’s dream of being a movie star.

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‘I coulda made somethin’ of myself.’
‘He says he was gonna put me in the movies.’
‘He says I could go with that show. But my ol’ lady wouldn’t let me’

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3 Quotes showing George as Lennie’s protector

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Water is Scummy: ‘I ain’t sure its good water,’ he said. ‘Looks kinda scummy’.
Work Card: ‘Think I’d let you carry your own work card?’
Speak for him: ‘Lennie never done it in meaness’

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3 Quotes showing George being occasionally Violent with Lennie

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‘God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy’

'’Listen to me you crazy bastard,’ he said fiercely.’

‘I socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go’

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3 Quotes showing George being the stratergist

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‘George laid down his card thoughtfully’

“I don’t want to get mixed up in nothing. Lennie and me got to make a stake.’’

“George shuffled the cards and laid out his solitaire hand. He used a deliberate, thoughtful, slowness.’

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3 Quotes showing Lenne being Large and clumsy

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‘Shapeless of face’
‘Lennie Small’
‘I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little.’

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3 Quotes showing Lenne being obsessed with furry creatures

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‘I remember the rabbits, George.’ …‘That’s all you even can remember is them rabbits.’

'’I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little.’’

‘Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits’

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3 Quotes showing Lenne being Slow-witted and childlike

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‘Lennie never done it in meanness’
‘Don’t you remember who that lady was. That was your own Aunt Clara.’
‘The guys in weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. So we sit in an irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day.’

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3 Quotes showing Lennie and animal Imagery

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‘Dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.’
‘Snorting into the water like a horse.’
‘Slowly, like a terrrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master’

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3 Quotes showing Lennie’s strength

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‘Strong as a bull’
‘Maybe he ain’t brigh but I never seem such a worker.’
‘The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie’s big hand.’

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3 quotes showing slim is exceptionally skilled

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‘He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch capable of driving ten, sioxteen, even twenty mules witha single line the leaders’

‘George fell silent. He wanted to talk. Slim neither encourage him,. He just sat back quiet and receptive.

‘No. I’ll come do it myslef.’

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3 quotes showing slim is physically disinguished

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‘A tall man stood in the doorway.’
‘Like the others he word blue jeans and a short denim jacket.’

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3 quotes showing slim is wise, knowledgeable and perceptive

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‘His ear heard moer than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyong thought.’

‘George looked over at Slim and saw the calm Godlike eyes fastened on him.’

‘An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George.’

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3 quotes showing the wider theme of loneliness and isolation

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‘Soledad’

‘Guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.’

‘Those western magazines that ranch men love to read and scoff an secretly believe.’

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Quote showing Candy is a swamper

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‘the old swamper’

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Quote showing Candy wants to be part of the dream?

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'’S’pose I went with you guys.’’

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Quote showing Carlson being big,strong, ranch hand

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‘A powerful, big-stomached man cam into the bunk house.’

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Quote showing Carlson being owner of the gun that is sused to kill Candy’s dog and Lennie.

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‘Carlson finished the cleaning of the gun and put it in the bag and pushed the bag uner his bunk.’

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Quote showing Crooks being a reader

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‘And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905.’

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Quote showing Crooks being proud

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‘This room was swept and fairly neat, for crooks was a proud, aloof man’

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Quote showing George Self-Sacrificing

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‘When you think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nut. I never get no peace.’

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Quote showing George’s dream of owning a farm with Lennie

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‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’.’

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Quote showing Georges intelligence?

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‘The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with resless eyes and sharp, strong features’

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Quote showing slim is pleasant and welcoming.

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‘Hope you get on my team,’ he said. His voice was very gentle.’

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