Of Mice and Men quotes

Question 1

George

Answer 1

‘with us it ain’t like that, we gotta future’
‘she’s a jailbait all set on the trigger’
‘he usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would’
‘whatever we ain’t got that’s what you want. If I were alone I could live so easy.’

Question 2

Lennie

Answer 2

‘we could live offa the fatta the land’
‘he’s just lika kid’
‘I was just playin’..an..an I don it…an then he was dead’
‘like a terrier reluctantly giving a ball to his master’
‘dragged his paws’ ‘snorted into the water’
‘tell me about the rabbits’

Question 3

Curley

Answer 3

‘his glance was at was calculating and pugnacious’
‘he hates big guys’
‘high heeled boots’
‘I hate that kinda bastard’
‘hands, clenched into fists. Slight crouch.’

Question 4

Curley’s Wife

Answer 4

‘i coulda made something of myself.. maybe I will yet’
‘coulda been in pictures…said I was a natural’
‘curley ain’t a nice guy’
‘she’s a jailbait all set on the trigger’
‘ain’t i got the right to talk to nobody’
‘full rouged lips and wide spaced eyes. Heavily made up.’
‘i don’t know what the hell she wants’
‘she’s gonna make a mess’
‘the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off’

Question 5

Slim

Answer 5

‘jerkline skinner’
‘price of the ranch’
‘his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love’
‘he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty’
‘slim don’t need no high heeled boots’
‘carlson stepped back to let slim proceed him’
“Ain’t many guys … travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

Question 6

Candy

Answer 6

‘you an me can still get that lil place can’t we’
‘you godamn tramp…you done it, didn’‘t you. I suppose you’re glad.’
They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me
‘i shoulda shot him’

Question 7

Carlson

Answer 7

“Whyn’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up?
“He ain’t no good to you, Candy. An’ he ain’t no good to himself”

Question 8

Crooks

Answer 8

A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody
a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick”
Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
‘i could have you killed so fast it ain’t even funny’