Of Mice And Men Quotes Flashcards
“I’d pet em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead”
Lennie
“I was jus’ playin’ with him… an’ he made like he’s gonna bite me… an’ I made like I was gonna smack him… an’ an’ I done it”
Lennie
“Lennie and Candy nodded and they were grinning with delight”
Lennie and Candy action
“we’re gonna have alfalfa for the rabbits”
Lennie
“sure… you ain’t done nothing wrong”
George
“[George telling story] ‘Lennie was delighted”
George bringing Lennie simple happiness
“with us if ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us”
George to Lennie
“He’s my… Cousin”
George
You guys travel around together?”
Slim
His tone was friendly. It invited confidence without demanding it.
Slims character tone and voice
“Mr. Slim” - Crooks
“Hi, Slim” - Carlson
Slim had respect
“Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in this whole world is scared of each other”
Slim
“What the hell you laughin’ at?” - to Lennie
Curley
“Curly followed, slugging him in the face”
Curly being violent
“He glanced coldly at George and then Lennie”
Curley
“We travel together” said George coldly.
“Oh, so it’s that way”
Curly
He leaned forward eagerly “ S’pose I went in with you guys?”
Candy
“A guy on a ranch don’t never listen nor he don’t ask no questions”
Candy
‘Crooks reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego, nothing’
Crooks in an argument with Curleys wife
‘If I say something, why it’s just a nigger sayin it”
Crooks
“Crooks said irritably ‘you can come on if you want”
Crooks to Lennie
“I had enough” he said coldly. “You have no right coming into a coloured mans room”
Crooks
“Whyn’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one the pups to raise up?”
Carlson
“I can smell that dog a mile away”
Carlson
