OMaM Character Quotes

Question 1

God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy

Answer 1

• George

Question 2

Guys like us, that work on the ranches, are the
loneliest guys in the world… They ain’t got nothing to
look ahead to

Answer 2

• George
• itinerant lifestyle
• result of the Great Depression

Question 3

bear drags his paws

Answer 3

• Lennie
• animalistic imagery showing how big and strong he is

Question 4

George wun’t go away and leave me. I know George
wun’t do that

Answer 4

• Lennie
• shows his dependancy on George
• parent and child relationship

Question 5

All talk stopped when he spoke

Answer 5

• Slim
• shows his natural leadership
• sense of admiration and respect for him

Question 6

She slang her pups last night… nine of ‘em. I drowned
four of ‘em right off

Answer 6

• Slim
• pragmatic and realistic view in life maybe because of the harsh reality of life during the Great Depression

Question 7

The prince of the ranch
he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty

Answer 7

• Slim
• regal imagery shows his authority and importance
• presented as above the other ranch workers

Question 8

He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys

Answer 8

• Curley (said by Candy)
• foreshadows the fight with Lennie

Question 9

It was difficult to conceal his pleasure with anger

Answer 9

• Crooks
• the racism and Jim Crow laws at the time
• he is just a lonely man who was deprived of company for too long
• shows he wants to be with everyone else and have a sense of companionship

Question 10

Guys don’t come into a coloured man’s room

Answer 10

• Crooks
• Racism and Jim Crow laws prevalent in the 1930s

Question 11

A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody

Answer 11

• Crooks
• loneliness
• racism and Jim Crow laws

Question 12

full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up.
Her fingernails were red… cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquet of red ostrich feathers

Answer 12

• Curley’s wife
• red symbolises seduction and also a sense of danger
• she doesn’t belong on the ranch with all her delicate and pretty clothes

Question 13

Well, you keep your place then nigger. I could get you
strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny

Answer 13

• Curley’s wife
• she uses the only limited power she has
• harsh reality of black men at the time

Question 14

I tell you I ain’t used to livin like this. I coulda made
somethin’ of myself

Answer 14

• Curley’s wife
• her American Dream

Question 15

I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog

Answer 15

• Candy
• relates to end of novella as George takes this advice and shoots Lennie himself
• lack of responsibility shown by Candy but realisation afterwards
• his dog was his only true companion and friend

Question 16

I wish somebody shoot me if I got old and crippled

Answer 16

• Candy
• shows the society they lived in as they would not be able to work after they have no use
• idea of everything can be replaced but the old things live in pain and suffering
• wants to be put out if his misery like his dog

Question 17

Now what the hell ya suppose is eating them two guys?

Answer 17

• Carlson
• he represents the ordinary Itinerant worker
• lack of compassion and feeling when Lennie dies