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Of Mice of Men Quotes 2 Flashcards

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1
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George looking down on Lennie?

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  • Poor Bastard
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Slim looks god like?

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  • His authority was so great it was taken on almost every subject.
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Lennie compared to an animal?

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  • Behind him walked his opposite…. a bear dragged its paws.
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George believes the dream will come through with the help of Candy?

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  • I bet we could swing her.
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Slim judges people on there actions?

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  • Maybe he ain’t bright….. worker?
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Slim = important in how he decided about the dog?

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  • Candy looked…. Slims opinions were law.
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Slim treats Crooks with more respect?

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  • Oh! Hello, Crooks.
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Lennie is child like?

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  • Blubberin’ like a baby? Jesus Christ!.
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Description of George by narrator?

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  • The first man was quick…. sharpe, strong features.
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George is protective of Lennie?

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  • Hide till i come for you….. Say that over.
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Candy believes Curley’s wife is a tart?

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  • she even gives the stable buck the eye.
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12
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Hinting to the reader, Foreshadowing what was going to happen?

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  • Hide in brush till you come.
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George is aggressive and bully’s Lennie?

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  • So you forgot that….. a crazy bastard.
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Slim finds it odd for people to support each other?

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  • Funny how you and him string along together.
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Description of Slim?

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  • A tall man….. a temple dancer.
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Complaining about conditions in the bunkhouse?

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  • We don’t want no pants rabbits.
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17
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Everyone has the dream, but not possible?

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  • Everybody wants a little piece of lan.
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18
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Kills Lennie has to push himself, but he believes it is for the best?

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  • And George…. and then he threw is from him.
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Lennie copies George and looks up to him as a farther figure?

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  • Lennie, who had been imitating George exactly
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Lennie drones on like a child?

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  • Lennie droned…… I ain’t gonna say nothing.
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21
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Lennie simple mad dream?

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  • Go on, George….. rabbits.
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22
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George has all power over Lennie?

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  • No lennie…. lennie obeyed him.
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23
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Foreshadowing, symbolic, uncontrollable power?

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  • Lennie sat in the barn and looked at the dead puppy..
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24
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Aware George would be angry like a child?

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  • George gonna give me hell…. botherin’ him.
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25
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Lennie fights back and shows his strength?

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  • Curley’s fist… Lennie’s big hand.
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26
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Carlson is brutal?

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  • Tell you what… back of the head.
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27
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Carlson respects slim?

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  • Slim entered… Carlson stepped back.
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Carlson unafraid and does not like Curley?

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  • You damn punk… I’ll kick your God dam head off!.
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Crooks is aloof and seems intelligent?

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  • He kept his distance and demanded people kept theirs.
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30
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Cynical compassion of heaven land and the dream?

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  • Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody ever gets no land.
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Isolation and emotion of Crooks?

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  • A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody… a guy gets lonely an’ he gets sick.
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Enjoys company, Crooks voice changes?

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  • Come on in… difficult for Crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger.
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33
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Crooks is revealed a good personality, however the segregation of the time shows?

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  • The door opened quietly… a lean negro head, lined with pain.
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34
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Crooks is looked at as lower?

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  • Fight at Christmas, seen as a lower and a form of entertainment.
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Crooks is a victim?

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  • The boss gives him hell when hes angry.
36
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Crooks buys into the dream?

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  • if you… guys… work like a son-of-a-bitch if i want to.
37
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Curley’s wife uses society prejudice to put Crooks down?

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  • I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t funny.
38
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Metaphor to express harsh reality?

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  • Crooks had reduced himself to nothing.
39
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Wants the dream but backs off?

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  • Member what i said… Jus’ foolin’ .
40
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Candy has a low opinion of Curleys wife?

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  • Well, …. A tart.
41
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Curleys wife disillusioned with marriage, she is confined and uses sarcasm.

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  • I’m glad you bust Curley up…. I’ d like to bust him up myself.’
42
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Her childish behavior looks down on everyone?

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  • You bindle bums…. he could put me in the pitches.
43
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Curleys wife is isolated?

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  • I get so lonely… How’d you like not to talk to nobody.
44
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Lack of empathy Metaphor from Carlson, ends on this?

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  • Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys.
45
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No sympathy for Candy?

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  • That dog stinks.
46
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Carlson description as a bully?

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  • A powerful

- He ain’t very small

47
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Boss believes that the relationship between L and G is odd?

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  • I never seen one guy take so much trouble….
48
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Boss, Aggressive on meeting people keen to make an impression?

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  • he glanced coldly… calculating and pugnaciously.
49
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Candys hate for Curley’s wife when Lennie has killed her?

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  • You Lousy tart/ you god-damn tramp.
50
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End of the dream, blames C’s wife?

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  • Now Candy spoke his greatest fear… he knew.
51
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Candy outlines the dream to Crooks, he is overwhelmed?

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  • Candy cried, sure they all want it… he stopped overwhelmed with his picture.
52
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Candy is powerless

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  • No… listen to us.
53
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Candy and the dream, prepared to pay . Scared he will die alone like his dog?

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  • S’pose i helped … how’d that be.

- Candy interrupted….. right now.

54
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Candy, alone and symbolic?

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  • Candy looked for help from face to face.
55
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C’s wife ends a victim, she dies powerless and alone?

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  • And she continued… her body flopped like a fish.
56
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Simile, C’s Wife?

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  • Flopped like a fish.
57
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Curly’s aggressive?

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  • Curley lashed… getting into it.
58
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Curley’s a fighter and a threat to Lennie and builds tension?

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  • Curley’s like a lot of little guys… he ain’t a big guy.
59
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Curley threatened by Slim? - Concerned with Wife

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  • Where the hell’s Slim
60
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Curley is weak and Lennie is described as a animal?

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Curley was white… his fist was lost in Lennies paw.

61
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The fight violent reactions and violent language?

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  • Curley came suddenly to life

- Shoots for his guts

62
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Slim compared to god?

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  • … and saw the calm god like eyes. - Imagery
63
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Slim sorts out situation, he has authority?

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  • If you don’t tell… an’ then will you get the laugh.
64
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Slim understands and protects George?

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  • Slim came directly… very close to him.’
65
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Describes how the boss is different?

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  • A little Stockey man… and not a laboring man.
66
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Boss is cautious of what he thinks George is doing?

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  • I said what stake… you taking his paw away from him?
67
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Candy concerned about being thrown out?

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  • Put on the country.
68
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Location

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  • A few miles south of Soledad, the Salines River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
69
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The light in chapter one?

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  • twinkling over the yellow sands.

- Golden foothill slopes.

70
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Personification of the sun?

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  • The shade climbed up the hills toward the top.
71
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What can the start and end of the book be compared to?

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The garden of Eden.

72
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Animals foreshadowing the death of Lennie.

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  • A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head.
73
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George foresees problem for Lennie?

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  • I never seen no jail bate worse in my life
74
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Lennie likes Curley’s wife?

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  • Shes purty
75
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Curleys wife was never going to be an actress?

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  • Her voice had a nasel, brittle quality
76
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It was obvious she wanted company?

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  • She was suddenly apprehensive
77
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Curley glove?

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glove fulla vaseline

78
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Where does the name “Of mice and Men” come from?

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  • 18th century poet Robert Burns.
  • It is about a mouse that carefully builds a nest that is only destroyed by a plow man. It is able to show that everyone’s lives are vulnerable to tragedy.
  • It is also written in a Scottish dialect.
79
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The silence when Candy’s dog died is described as an object?

A

“The silence came into the room”

80
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Steinbeck making it sound like Lennie is telling George to shoot him?

A

“Lets do it now George”

81
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light in chapter one?

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the shade climedup thehills toward the top

82
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chapter 2 light, bunk house?

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the sun threw a dust-laden bar through one of the side windows

83
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chapter 2 light curleys wife?

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The rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off

Symbol of dream being cut off

84
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sounds in chapter 4 death of C’s wife?

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the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game.

85
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sound and vision with the approaching men?

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the leaves rustled… And shouts of men sounded again, this time much closer then before.

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