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George being intelligent

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“The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.”

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George Lennie’s protector 1

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“‘I ain’t sure its good water,’ he said. ‘Looks kinda scrummy.’”

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George Lennie’s protector 2

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“‘Think I’d let you carry your own work card?’”

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George Lennie’s protector 3

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“‘Hide in the brush till I come for you. Can you remember that?’”

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George Lennie’s protector 4

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“‘Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master.’”

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Dream of farm

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“‘An live off the fatta the lan.’”

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George self-sacrificing

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“‘When you think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace.’”

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George Occasionally Violent 1

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“‘God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.’”

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George occasionally violent 2

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“‘Listen to me you crazy bastard.’ he said fiercely”

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George occasionally violent 3

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“‘I socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go.’”

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George strategist

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“George laid down his cards thoughtfully, turned his piles of three.”

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George strategist 2

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“George said,”I’m stayin’ right here. I don’t want to get mixed up in nothing. Lennie and me got to make a stake’”

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Lennie Large & Clumsy

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“Shapeless of face.”

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Lennie Large & Clumsy 2

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“‘I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little.’”

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Lennie Large & Clumsy 3

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“Lennie small.”

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Lennie dumb and childlike

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“Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly.”

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Lennie Dumb and Childlike

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“‘Don’t you even remember who that lady was. That was your own aunt Clara.’”

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Lennie Dumb and Childlike 2

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“‘Take this pup back to the nest. He’s gotta sleep with his mother. You want to kill him? Just born last night an’ you take him out of the nest.’”

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Lennie Dumb and Childlike 3

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“‘Jesus,’ He said.’He’s jes’ like a kid ain’t he ‘…‘Sure he’s jes’ like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither.’”

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Lennie Dumb and Childlike 4

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”’ Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard.’”

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Lennie furry creatures

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“‘That big guys messin’ about with your pups.’”

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Lennie furry creatures 2

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“‘Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits.’”

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Lennie furry creatures 3

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“‘Don’t you think of nothing but rabbits?’”

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Lennie animal

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“‘Dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.’”

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Lennie animal 2
"Snorting into the water like a horse."
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Lennie animal 3
"Slowly, like a terrier who doesn't want to bring a ball to its master."
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Lennie animal 4
"He pawed up the hay."
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Lennie strong
"'Strong as a bull.'"
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Lennie strong 2
"'Maybe he ain't bright but I never seen such a worker.'"
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Lennie strong 3
"The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand.'"
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Lennie Kind & Gentle
Lennie never done it in meanness.'"
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Lennie liking dream
"'George, how long's it gonna be till we get that little place an' live on the fatta the lan-an' rabbits?'"
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Curley's wife attractive
"A girl was standing there looking in. She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up."
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Curley wife attractive 2
"She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young."
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Curley's wife attractive 3
"And sound stopped and movement stopped for much more than a moment.'"
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Curley wife flirtatious
"Her lips were slightly parted. She breathed strongly, as though she had been running."
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Curley wife flirtatious 2
"'Well I think Curley's married... A tart.'"
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Curley's wife flirtatious 3
"'She's a jail bait all set on the trigger of the hoosegow.'"
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Curley wife unhappily married
"'Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while?'"
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Curley's wife unhappily married 2
"'I get lonely,' she said. 'You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley.'"
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Curley wife unhappily married 3
"'I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella.'"
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Curley wife dream of star
"'I coulda made somethin' of myself.'"
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Curley wife dream of star 2
"'He says he was gonna put me in the movies.'"
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Curley wife as "tart"/ cruelty
"'You ain't no good now, you lazy tart.'"
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Curley power on ranch
"'Like the boss, he wore high-heeled botts.'"
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Curley power on ranch 2
"'Slim don't need to wear no high heeled boots on a grain team'"
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Curley bully/temper
"Curley lashed his body around."
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Curley bully/temper 2
"His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists."
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Curley bully/ temper 2
"Curley's shoulders dropped and squared. 'How long ago'd he go?'"
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Curley bully/temper 3
"Then Curley's rage exploded."
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Curley unfriendly
"'By Christ, he's gotta talk when he's spoke to. What the hell are you gettin into it for?'"
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Curley unfriendly 2
"'Curley stepped over to Lennie like a terrier. 'What the hall you laughin' at?'"
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Curley jealous/insecure about wife
"'Glove's fulla vaseline.'"
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Curley jealous/insecure about wife 2
"Curley burst into the room excitedly. 'Any you guys seen my wife?' he demanded."
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Candy old/disabled
"Stoop shouldered old man"
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Candy old/disabled 2
"Round stick-like wrist, but no hand."
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Candy old/disabled 3
"'I lost my hand right here on this ranch.'"
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Candy lonely/insecure
"'They'll can me purty soon. Jus' as soon as I can't swamp out no bunk houses they'll put me on the county.'"
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Candy liked dog
"'I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him.'"
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Candy likes dream
"He leaned forward eagerly. 'S'pose I went in with you guys.'"
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Slim leader/respected
"He moved into the room, and he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen"
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Slim leader/ respected 2
"His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject."
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Slim leader/respected 3
"'He ain't mean,' said Slim.'I can tell a mean guy a mile off.'"
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Slim leader/respected 4
"Candy looked at Slim for some kind of reversal."
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Slim Physically distinguished
"A tall man stood in the doorway."
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Slim Physically Distinguished 2
"Like the others he wore blue jeans and a short denim jacket."
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Slim skilled
"'No. Ill come do it myself.'"
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Slim Skilled 2
"'But jus' the same, he better leave Slim alone. Nobody don't know what Slim cand do.'"
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Slim perceptive/knowledgeable
"George looked over at Slim and saw a calm Godlike eyes fastened on him."
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Slim perceptive/knowledgeable 2
"'An' s'pose they lock him up an' strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain't no good, George.'"
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Slim welcoming
"'Hope you get on my team,' he said. His voice was very gentle."`
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Crooks old/disabled
"'Give the stable buck hell? Ya see, the stable bucks a n___er','Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him.'"
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Crooks old/disabled 2
"His body was bent over to the left by his crook spine and his eyes lay deep in his head"
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Crooks lonely/frustrated
"'Nobody got any right in here but me.'"
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Crooks lonely/frustrated 2
"'A guys goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.'"
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Crooks blamed because racial prejudice
"'If I say something, why it's just a n___er sayin' it.'"
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Crooks blamed because racial prejudice 2
"'Guys don't come into a coloured mans room very much.'"
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Crooks reader
"And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905."`
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Crooks cynical about dream
"'I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.'
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Crooks Proud
"This room was swept and fairly neat, for crooks was a proud, aloof man"
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Crooks cynical about dream 2
"'You guys comin' in an' settin'. What she says is true.'"
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Crooks defensive
"For a moment Crooks did not see him, but on raising his eyes he stiffened and a scowl came on his face."
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Carlson big/strong
"A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunk house."
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Carlson insensitive and pushy
"'Ever'time he comes into the bunk house I can smell him for two, three days. Why'n't you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up?'"
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Carlson insensitive/pushy 2
"'Let's get it over with,' 'We can't sleep with him stinkin' around here.'"
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Carlson insensitive/pushy 3
"'Now what the heel ya suppose is eatin' them two guys.'"
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Carlson has gun
"Carlson finished the cleaning of the gun and put it in the bag and pushed the bag under his bunk."
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation
"Soledad" - means solitude in Spanish
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation 2
"'Guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.'"
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation 3
"'What you got a stake in this guys?'"
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation 4
"'On a ranch don't ever listen nor he don't ast no questions.'"
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation 5
"'Yeah. I had him ever since he was a pup. God, he was a good sheep dog when he was younger.'"
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation 6
"'George can tell you scewy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all'"
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THEME: Loneliness and Isolation 7
"'You're all scared of each other, that's that. Ever' one of you's scared the rest is goin' to get something on you'"
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THEME: Friendship and Companionship
"'Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.'"
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THEME: Friendship and Companionship 2
"'Because...Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.'"
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THEME: Dreams
"'An' live off the fatta the lan'"
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THEME: Dreams 2
"'This thing that they had never really believed was coming true.'"
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THEME: Dreams 3
"He hesitated.'...If you...Guys would want a hand to work for nothing---'"
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THEME: Racial prejudice
"'Well you can keep your place then, N-----. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny.'"
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THEME: foreshadowing
"'I'd pet 'em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little.'"
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THEME: Foreshadowing 2
"'Hide in the brush till I come for you. Can you remember that?'"
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THEME: Foreshadowing 3
"'Don't you even remember who that lady was. That was your own aunt Clara.'"
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THEME: Violence and Cruelty
"He slashed at Lennie with his left and then smashed down his nose with his right. Blood welled from his nose."
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THEME: Violence and Cruelty 2
"'Shoot for his guys,'"
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THEME: Misogyny
"'You god damn tramp'...'You wasn't no good you ain't no good now.'"
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THEME: Misogyny 2
"'I'm gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun. I'll kill the big son of a bitch myself. I'll shoot him in the guts.'"

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