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
We’d just go to her. We wouldn’t ask nobody if we could. Jus’ say..
‘We’ll go to her,’ an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her.
-said by george to candy
-said in middle of section 3
-theme of the american dream, hope and ambition
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
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shallows.
A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.
-section 6
-rich imagery
-the readers sense return to paradise of security and comfort, george and lennie have claimed this space as a safe haven, a place to return to in times of trouble
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
