Section Six Flashcards
“A l w s s u t p.”
“Another little water snake swam up the pool.”
The same imagery of the “periscope head” is used in Sections One and Six. Each time it gets eaten by a heron and another one takes its place.
“H e h k a l h c o h k.”
“He embraced his knees and laid his chin on his knees.”
In Section One, Lennie copied George doing this. Now he is alone and doing it himself - almost like he’s thinking ‘what would George do?’
L: “I t, A C, m.”
Lennie: “I tried, Aunt Clara, ma’am.”
Lennie is confronted by a hallucination of his Aunt Clara. He is clearly very sorry for what he’s done but cannot piece together the vicious cycle he is trapped in.
T r: “H g b h o y w a s.”
The rabbit: “He’s gonna beat hell outta you with a stick.”
Lennie’s imagination is quite violent. George is actually trying to stop this from happening.
“H v w m, h n e.”
“His voice was monotonous, had no emphasis.”
George is worried about what happens next once he has lost his only friend but can’t let it show to Lennie.
“L t h h a l o a t p a u t d s”
“Lennie turned his head and looked off across the pool and up the darkening slopes”
It is almost ironic that this is the last thing Lennie sees. He sees freedom but he can never get that now.
G: “E g b n t y. A g b n m t.”
George: “Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble.”
George throws a subtle hint about what he’s going to do.
S: “Y h, G. I s y h.”
Slim: “you hadda, George. I swear you hadda.”
C: “N w t h y s i e t t g?”
Carlson: “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?”
The final words of the novel. Life goes on, and to Carlson it makes no sense why everyone is being so sentimental about Lennie.
