GEORGE Flashcards
(4 cards)
INITIAL PRESENTATION
‘small and quick and dark of face with restless eyes and sharp, strong features’
‘you crazy bastard’
‘when I think off the crazy time id have without you/ i go nuts’
CONTRAST LENNIE
‘huge man shapeless face’
FRIENDSHIP DYNAMIC WITH LENNIE (PROTECTOR)
Steinbecks highlights uniqueness of relationship to show lack of companionship in 1930’s society but later explores its impossibility.
“First man”“follower’
‘dont drink so much… you gonna be sick’
‘I want you to come right here an hide in the brush’
Lennie said ‘I thought you was mad at me’
‘I seen the guys that go around on ranches alone. That aint no good’
‘Aint many guys travel round together, he mused. I don’t know why maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other’
Slim is model voice and accepts the relationship
‘Well I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.id just like to know what your interest is’
. surprise from boss and fellow workers
His Dream
‘his voice growing warmer’
‘O.K. someday were gonna get the jack together and were gonna have it’
‘whydn’t you do it yourself you know all of it?’
‘rhythmically’
‘monotonously’
Killing Lennie = death and sacrifice of dream
he himself has become aware of the impossibility of the dream in the society he currently lives in.
Friendship unattainable in this society , Slim comforts George because he is the rational voice and often speaks as Steinbeck.
Iterant workers were destined to hopelessness
‘No I aint mad I never been mad and I aint now. This the thing I want you to know’
‘George pulls the trigger’
‘tell how its gonna be’
‘I think id known wed never do her’
Ranch+ no name set in Soledad with means loneliness in Spanish.
