OMAM Dream quotes Flashcards
Learn the key quotes of the dreams theme.
“Rhythmically as through he has said them many times before”
- George and Lennie’s dream.
- Said like a prayer/ritual
“An’ live off the fatta the lan’”
- Want to reap the profits of their hard work themselves
- Not want to depend on others
“Ain’t enough land so we’d have to work too hard. Maybe six, seven hours a day. We wouldn’t have to buck no barley eleven hours a day.”
- being realistic that they’d still have to work
- they’d have the freedom to work their own hours etc.
“We’d know what come of our plating”
- profit from their own labour
- claim ‘fruit’ of labour for themselves
“Own place where we belonged.”
- wouldn’t need to move for work
- sense of security
“Not sleep in no bunk house”
- privacy
“Be out own and nobody could can us”
- sense of security
“Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em.”
- they’d be safe
“Two brothers always near me, always there. Used to sleep right in the same room, right in the same bed.”
- Crooks’ dream
- wasn’t alone or isolated like he is now
“A guy told me he could put me in pitchers.”
- Curley’s wife’s dream
- tragedy
“Says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural.”
- wanted to be rich and famous
“I never got that letter.”
- never was a letter
- dream was never going to happen
