Of Mice and Men Flashcards
“He ain’t mean”‘repeated in…
Start of Chapter 3
Lennie: “I done a real bad thing… I shouldn’t have did that. George’ll be mad.”
Bases his moral judgement on what George will think
Lennie “sure can…
take his orders.”
Lennie: “Sure he’s jes’ like a kid…
There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong.”
George: “I ain’t nothing…
to scream about, but Lennie…”
George: “restless…
eyes.”
George: “We kinda
look after each other.”
George: “You keep
away from Curley, Lennie.”
George: “Guys like us, that
work on a ranch, are the loneliest guys in the world.”
George: “We got…
a future.”
George “-I think I knowed…
from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her.”
George symbolises
the average migrant worker.
Slim: “there was ___ in his manner”
Gravity; suggests power, strength & security
Slim CRUEL vs KIND
CRUEL; agrees Candy’s dog must be shot
KIND; gives Lennie a puppy
Modifiers used to make Slim appear God-like:
Royalty
Majesty
Prince of the Ranch
Slim is more like…
A set of values than a real personality.
Slim can be used to…
set a benchmark to compare other characters to.
Slim doesn’t need
“no high heeled boots”
Slim is angry when…
Curley is cruel to Lennie, because he has a strong sense of justice
Candy
has a physical weakness
can be malicious
(because he is malicious)
Curley is
a major figure to present theme of injustice
Curley “won’t ever
get canned cause he’s the old man’s boss”
Curley “ain’t
a nice fella”
Crooks is
the only character to identify dreams are unrealistic.
Crook: “nobody gets
to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”
Curley’s wife and
can be vindictive
portrays theme of loneliness
has had her own dreams destroyed
Curley’s wife has power in
her feminity and sexuality.
Curley’s wife: “Why can’t I talk
to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
The boss is a
distant figure
Carlson is
pragmatic and insensitive
Carlson is a “powerful,
big-stomached man”
Whit has
no real involvement.
why is lennie portrayed with animal characteristics?
because animals don’t have a moral understanding and can be dangerous because of this
