Mice and Men Flashcards
(28 cards)
“Think i would let you carry your own report card?”
- George says this
- Goes with the theme of Friendship
- Migrant workers in the 1930s would go around trying to find work
- Normally migrant workers would travel alone, but George and Lennie travel together showing friendship
“When i think of a swell time i could have without you i go nuts”
- George says this
- Goes with the theme of Friendship and Suffering as George is being rude to Lennie
- Migrant workers would normally travel alone, so George is thinking about that life
“Tart” “Tramp”
- All said to Curley’s Wife
- Shows the way a women was treated on the ranch and how they would of been treated in the 1930s, sexism and segregation
- Goes with the themes Isolation, Suffering,
“I never get to talk to nobody”
- Curley’s wife says this
- Shows how lonely she is because she never achieved her American Dream, Sexism towards women as no one is nice to her
- Goes with the theme, Loneliness and Suffering
“I coulda made something of myself
- Curleys wife
- Her talking about her American Dream of becoming a film star and how she never achived it like many other people.
- Theme of Suffering, Dreams
“heavy made up”
- Curley’s wife
- Shows the way she is shown in the book
- Sexism
- Goes with theme of Suffering
‘Lennie who had been watching copied George exactly”
- Shows how Lennie looks up to George
- Shows friendship which in the 1930s would be rare
- Theme of Friendship
“We could live of the fatta of the land”
- George and Lennie’s dream
- American dream
- Very little money due to unemployment so dreams wouldn’t normally come true
- Goes with theme of Friendship, Dreams
“I remember about the rabbits”
- Lennie talking about his American Dream
- Goes with theme of Dreams
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you”
- Lennie says this to George showing a strong bond
- Migrant workers travel alone, so are lonely, rare to find a friendship like this, would be hard to get work
- Goes with theme of Friendship
“I ought to of shot that dog myself”
- Candy says this after Carlson shoots his dog
- Candy and his dog was the other strong bond in the book apart from Lennie and George
- Goes with theme of Suffering, Loss
“Swampers defence”
- Shows how the rest of the ranch view Candy
- He was old so would be hard to find a good job which pays good as a lot of competition as money was tight due to unemployment
- Goes with theme of Suffering, Loss
“Aint a nice fella”
- Curley’s wife says this about him, showing how he’s a bad person if his wife doesn’t even like him
- Shows that women had to put up with husbands they don’t like because they need money
- Themes of Suffering and Isolation for Curley’s wife
“Glove full of vaseline”
- Shows he wants to please his wife
- Shows vulnerability
“Son of a b** is going to laugh at me”
- Toxic masculinity, doesn’t want to seem weak
- In the 1930s men where the ones trying to find jobs, higher in the hierarchy then women, don’t want to seem weak
“Stable buck and a cripple”
- Shows how Crooks is viewed by the other workers
- Racism in the 1930s was bad, KKK influenced people. The loss of jobs due to the Wall Street Crash meant unemployment rates where low, the KKK influences people into thinking people of colour where the reason to the lack of jobs
- Themes of Loss, Loneliness and Suffering
“Done come into a place your not wanted”
- Crooks has learnt the right he has
- Doesn’t want to be nice to the workers who treated him bad
- Theme of Suffering
“Wasn’t another coloured family around for miles”
- Shows that not many people of colour got jobs
- Height of racism in the 1930s
- Themes of Loneliness and Suffering
“i could get you strung up on a tree so easily it ain’t even funny”
- Curley’s wife says this to Crooks
- Curley’s wife is treated badly by the ranch workers so treats Crooks badly as he’s the only one lower then her in the hierarchy
- Themes of Suffering
“Godlike” “Prince of the ranch”
- How Slim is shown to be on the ranch
- Everyone likes him but got no friend
- At the end of the book shows he might have a friendship with George after he shot Lennie “You hadda George, swear you hadda”
- Theme of Friendship and Loneliness like the other workers
“A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody”
- Shows Crooks loneliness
- Racism and segregation causes him to be lonely, a lot of migrant workers would off been lonely but especially Crooks.
- Theme of Loneliness and Suffering
“He pulled the trigger”
- George kills Lennie
- George had to kill Lennie for his own good
- As Lennie was shot he was thinking about his American dream showing that in the book only his dream came true. As American dreams didn’t really come true in the 1930s
- Theme of Suffering and Loss
“I get to tend the rabbits”
- Lennie’s American dream, that George reminds him off
- Theme of dreams
“guys like us…loneliest in the world”
- Even George who has Lennie is shown to be lonely
- Migrant workers would be lonely as they would be alone a lot so they would dream of friendship or family
- Theme of Dreams, Loss and Suffering