of mice and men important quotes

Question 1

guys like us…

Answer 1

that work on ranches are the lonliest guys in the world. They got no family
-theme of male friendship
-theme of loneliness
-said by george in section 1

Question 2

A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not.

Answer 2

He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by.
-theme of loniliess
-theme of rascism

Question 3

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head.

Answer 3

An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
-section 4
-crooks deflates lennies hopes, injects them with a sense of reality

Question 4

his hands were…

Answer 4

large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer

Question 5

i drowned…

Answer 5

four of ‘em right off

Question 6

he moved…

Answer 6

with a majesty only achieved by royalty

Question 7

crushed..

Answer 7

Stetson hat

Question 8

gravity…

Answer 8

in his manner

Question 9

and a quiet…

Answer 9

so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke

Question 10

he might…

Answer 10

have been thirty five or fifty

Question 11

slim looked…

Answer 11

through george and beyond him

Question 12

carlson stepped…

Answer 12

back to let slim precede him

Question 13

ever’ time…

Answer 13

the guys is around she shows up

Question 14

shes gonna…

Answer 14

make a mess

Question 15

she got the..

Answer 15

eye goin around all the time… i bet she even gives the stable buck the eye

Question 16

cotton..

Answer 16

house dress

Question 17

leaned against the..

Answer 17

door frame so that her body was thrown foward

Question 18

i’d make a will an’…

Answer 18

leave my share to you guys in case i kick off

Question 19

and the halter…

Answer 19

chains rattled

Question 20

both men glanced up…

Answer 20

for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway cut off

Question 21

ever’ time…

Answer 21

the guys is around she shows up

Question 22

guys have you…

Answer 22

seen my wife?

Question 23

Andy’s in San quentin…

Answer 23

right now on account of a tart
-chapter 3
-women are seen as the problem
-prejudice
-oppressed

Question 24

i jus…

Answer 24

thought you might of saw her

Question 25

you keep outta this...

Answer 25

les' you wanna step outside

Question 26

Lennie covered his face..

Answer 26

with his huge paws and bleated with terror

Question 27

you got no...

Answer 27

right to come in my room

Question 28

i ain't wanted

Answer 28

in the bunkhouse, and you ain't wanted in my room

Question 29

set down...

Answer 29

on the nail keg

Question 30

s'pose George

Answer 30

dont come back no more -repetition

Question 31

crooks face...

Answer 31

lightened with pleasure in his torture

Question 32

books ain't

Answer 32

no good. A guy needs somebody

Question 33

you guys is just..

Answer 33

kidding yourself...seems like ever' guy got land in his head

Question 34

any you...

Answer 34

boys seen curley

Question 35

if you guys would...

Answer 35

want a hand to work for nothing

Question 36

think i dont...

Answer 36

like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while?

Question 37

Member what i said...

Answer 37

about hoein' and doin' odd jobs? ... Well, jus' forget it

Question 38

Lennie sat in...

Answer 38

the hay and looked at the little dead puppy -foreshadowing

Question 39

she wore her bright...

Answer 39

cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers. Her face was made up and the little sausage curls were all in place.

Question 40

i coulda...

Answer 40

made somethin of myself

Question 41

why cant i...

Answer 41

talk to you? I never get to talk to anybody. I get awful lonely

Question 42

and the meanness...

Answer 42

and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face

Question 43

guys dont come

Answer 43

into a colored mans room

Question 44

full, rouged lips

Answer 44

and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. her fingernails were red

Question 45

you know what

Answer 45

i can do to you if you open your trap

Question 46

Well, you keep your

Answer 46

place then n*****. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny

Question 47

I aint much good

Answer 47

but i could cook and tend the chickens

Question 48

I shouldnt ought

Answer 48

to of let no stranger shoot my dog

Question 49

i wish some body

Answer 49

shoot me if i was old and crippled

Question 50

a guy goes

Answer 50

nuts if he ain't got nobody

Question 51

crooks scowled

Answer 51

but lennies disarming smile defeats him

Question 52

bear drags

Answer 52

his paws

Question 53

ain't you

Answer 53

gonna give me hell george?

Question 54

I never meant

Answer 54

no harm, george. Honest I never

Question 55

we kind

Answer 55

look after eachother

Question 56

we got a future

Answer 56

we got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us

Question 57

he said

Answer 57

he was gonna put me in the pichters

Question 58

i think i knowed from

Answer 58

the very first. I think i knwoeed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much i got to thinking maybe we would

Question 59

The boss gives him

Answer 59

hell if hes mad. But the stable buck dont give a damn about that

Question 60

Ain't many

Answer 60

guys travel around together" he mused "i dont know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of eachother

Question 61

There wasnt another

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colored family for miles around. And now there aint a colored man on this ranch an' theres jus one family in soledad

Question 62

ranch with a bunch

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of guys on it ain't no place for a girl, specially like her

Question 63

seems like curley

Answer 63

is cockier'n ever since he got married

Question 64

jerkline

Answer 64

skinner

Question 65

the

Answer 65

prince of the ranch

Question 66

god a;mighty

Answer 66

if i was alone i could live so easy

Question 67

we travel

Answer 67

together

Question 68

about

Answer 68

the rabits

Question 69

i dont want

Answer 69

no fights

Question 70

lennie smiled

Answer 70

helplessy in an attempt to make friends

Question 71

shes a jailbait

Answer 71

all set on the trigger