Of Mice And Men Flashcards
Quote to show George’s appearance
“small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features … [with] small, strong hands, slender arms, and thin and bony nose”
Quote to show Lennie as animalistic and inferior to George
“Like a terrier who doesn’t want to approach his master”
Quote to show how George dislikes Lennie
“if I was alone I could live so easy”
Quote to show George’s approval of the relationship
“We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.
Quote to show how Lennie allowed George to dream
“He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would”
Quote to show George’s lost hope in the finale
“I’ll work my month an’ I’ll take my fifty bucks an’ I’ll stay all night in some lousy cat house.”
Quote to show Slim’s approval of the euthanasia
“You had, George. I swear you hadda”
Quote to show Lennie’s generosity to George
“But I wouldn’t eat none, George. I’d leave it all for you.”
Quote to show George and Lennie’s codependency
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you”
Quote to show Lennie’s innate evil
“pinched their heads a little”
Quote to show Lennie’s infantility
“There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong”
Quote to show Candy’s long relationship with his dog
“Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup”
Quote to show Candy’s cowardice
“I ought to of shot that dog myself,”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s loneliness
“what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs—a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep—an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s dream
“An’ a guy tol’ me he could put me in pitchers”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s innate compassion and lack of evil
“the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face.”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s racism and picking-on of the weak
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
Quote to show Slim’s status
“Prince of the ranch”
Quote to show Slim’s empathisation skills
“I can tell a mean guy from a mile off”
Quote to show Slim’s use of white lies
“I think you got your han’ caught in a machine.”
Quote to show Slim’s moral code
“A guy got to sometimes”
Quote to show Crooks’ inner niceness
“Crooks scowled, but Lennie’s disarming smile defeated him.”
Quote to show Crooks’ racial isolation
“And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad.”
Quote to show Crooks’ negativity
“They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”
Quote to show why Curley is prejudiced against Lennie
“Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys.”
Quote to show Curley’s aggressiveness
“He glanced coldly at George and then at Lennie. His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists.”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s femininity
“She smiled archly and twitched her body. “Nobody can’t blame a person for lookin’,””
Quote to show Carlson’s heartlessness
“Whyn’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog?”
Quote to show George’s belief in the American Dream
“We got a future”
Quote to show George’s parentalesque control over Lennie
‘Get um Lennie’
Quote to foreshadow the finale
‘hide in the brush till I come for you’
Quote to show Lennie’s violence
'’Don’t go yellin’ he said, and he shook her’
Quote to show Lennie’s small amount of morals
‘I done another bad thing’
Quote to show Candy’s ability to make the dream a reality
‘Tell ya what Lennie I been figuring out about those rabbits’
Quote to show Crooks’ power over Lennie
‘you go on get outta my room’
Quote to show Carlson’s lack of empathy
‘now what the hell ya suppose is eating them two guys?’
Quote to show lack of companionship given the historical context
“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.”
Quote to show the natural need for companionship in all men
“A guy needs somebody-to be near him.”
Quote to show lack of trust given the historical context
“You’re all scared of each other, that’s what.”
Quote to show the workers’ attitude to Curley’s Wife
“Jailbait set on the trigger”
Quote to show Lennie’s zoomorphism
‘his huge paws and bleated with terror’
