of mice and men important quotes Flashcards
guys like us…
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
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.
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
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.
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
his hands were…
large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer
i drowned…
four of ‘em right off
he moved…
with a majesty only achieved by royalty
crushed..
Stetson hat
gravity…
in his manner
and a quiet…
so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke
he might…
have been thirty five or fifty
slim looked…
through george and beyond him
carlson stepped…
back to let slim precede him
ever’ time…
the guys is around she shows up
shes gonna…
make a mess
she got the..
eye goin around all the time… i bet she even gives the stable buck the eye
cotton..
house dress
leaned against the..
door frame so that her body was thrown foward
i’d make a will an’…
leave my share to you guys in case i kick off
and the halter…
chains rattled
both men glanced up…
for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway cut off
ever’ time…
the guys is around she shows up
guys have you…
seen my wife?
Andy’s in San quentin…
right now on account of a tart
-chapter 3
-women are seen as the problem
-prejudice
-oppressed
i jus…
thought you might of saw her
you keep outta this…
les’ you wanna step outside
Lennie covered his face..
with his huge paws and bleated with terror
you got no…
right to come in my room
i ain’t wanted
in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room
set down…
on the nail keg
s’pose George
dont come back no more
-repetition
crooks face…
lightened with pleasure in his torture
books ain’t
no good. A guy needs somebody
you guys is just..
kidding yourself…seems like ever’ guy got land in his head
any you…
boys seen curley
if you guys would…
want a hand to work for nothing
think i dont…
like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while?
Member what i said…
about hoein’ and doin’ odd jobs? …
Well, jus’ forget it
Lennie sat in…
the hay and looked at the little dead puppy
-foreshadowing
she wore her bright…
cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers. Her face was made up and the little sausage curls were all in place.
i coulda…
made somethin of myself
why cant i…
talk to you? I never get to talk to anybody. I get awful lonely
and the meanness…
and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face
guys dont come
into a colored mans room
full, rouged lips
and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. her fingernails were red
you know what
i can do to you if you open your trap
Well, you keep your
place then n*****. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny
I aint much good
but i could cook and tend the chickens
I shouldnt ought
to of let no stranger shoot my dog
i wish some body
shoot me if i was old and crippled
a guy goes
nuts if he ain’t got nobody
crooks scowled
but lennies disarming smile defeats him
bear drags
his paws
ain’t you
gonna give me hell george?
I never meant
no harm, george. Honest I never
we kind
look after eachother
we got a future
we got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us
he said
he was gonna put me in the pichters
i think i knowed from
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
The boss gives him
hell if hes mad. But the stable buck dont give a damn about that
Ain’t many
guys travel around together” he mused “i dont know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of eachother
There wasnt another
colored family for miles around. And now there aint a colored man on this ranch an’ theres jus one family in soledad
ranch with a bunch
of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl, specially like her
seems like curley
is cockier’n ever since he got married
jerkline
skinner
the
prince of the ranch
god a;mighty
if i was alone i could live so easy
we travel
together
about
the rabits
i dont want
no fights
lennie smiled
helplessy in an attempt to make friends
shes a jailbait
all set on the trigger
