OMAM Quotes Flashcards
George being intelligent
“The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.”
George Lennie’s protector 1
“‘I ain’t sure its good water,’ he said. ‘Looks kinda scrummy.’”
George Lennie’s protector 2
“‘Think I’d let you carry your own work card?’”
George Lennie’s protector 3
“‘Hide in the brush till I come for you. Can you remember that?’”
George Lennie’s protector 4
“‘Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master.’”
Dream of farm
“‘An live off the fatta the lan.’”
George self-sacrificing
“‘When you think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace.’”
George Occasionally Violent 1
“‘God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.’”
George occasionally violent 2
“‘Listen to me you crazy bastard.’ he said fiercely”
George occasionally violent 3
“‘I socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go.’”
George strategist
“George laid down his cards thoughtfully, turned his piles of three.”
George strategist 2
“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’”
Lennie Large & Clumsy
“Shapeless of face.”
Lennie Large & Clumsy 2
“‘I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little.’”
Lennie Large & Clumsy 3
“Lennie small.”
Lennie dumb and childlike
“Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly.”
Lennie Dumb and Childlike
“‘Don’t you even remember who that lady was. That was your own aunt Clara.’”
Lennie Dumb and Childlike 2
“‘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.’”
Lennie Dumb and Childlike 3
“‘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.’”
Lennie Dumb and Childlike 4
”’ Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard.’”
Lennie furry creatures
“‘That big guys messin’ about with your pups.’”
Lennie furry creatures 2
“‘Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits.’”
Lennie furry creatures 3
“‘Don’t you think of nothing but rabbits?’”
Lennie animal
“‘Dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.’”
Lennie animal 2
“Snorting into the water like a horse.”
Lennie animal 3
“Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master.”
Lennie animal 4
“He pawed up the hay.”
Lennie strong
“‘Strong as a bull.’”
Lennie strong 2
“‘Maybe he ain’t bright but I never seen such a worker.’”
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.’”
Lennie Kind & Gentle
Lennie never done it in meanness.’”
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?’”
Curley’s wife attractive
“A girl was standing there looking in. She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up.”
Curley wife attractive 2
“She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young.”
Curley’s wife attractive 3
“And sound stopped and movement stopped for much more than a moment.’”
Curley wife flirtatious
“Her lips were slightly parted. She breathed strongly, as though she had been running.”
Curley wife flirtatious 2
“‘Well I think Curley’s married… A tart.’”
Curley’s wife flirtatious 3
“‘She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger of the hoosegow.’”
Curley wife unhappily married
“‘Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while?’”
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.’”
Curley wife unhappily married 3
“‘I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella.’”
Curley wife dream of star
“‘I coulda made somethin’ of myself.’”
