Of Mice And Men Flashcards
Curley descriptive quotes
‘Like a terrier’
‘Curley was balanced and poised’’
Curleys wife quote about being lonely
‘Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?’
Curleys wife quote about Curley
‘I don’t like Curley, he ain’t a nice fella’
Quotes about the men’s views of Curleys wife
‘Well looks like Curley married a tart’ - Candy
‘She got the eye’ - Candy
‘She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger’ -George
‘Jesus, what a tramp’ - George
Curleys wife descriptive quotes
‘She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up’
‘’If he ain’t, I guess I better look some place else,’ she said playfully’
‘She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward’
Curley quotes on toxic masculinity
‘He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at em because he ain’t a big guy’
‘Ya big bastard’
‘I’ll show you who’s yella’
‘Well, that glove’s fulla Vaseline’
Women in 1930s America
Expected to keep their tradition roles
Education was limited
Husband’s ‘possession’ - couldn’t own their own credit cards until the 1960s
Curley and Curleys wife’s marriage quotes
‘He spends half his time lookin for her, and the rest of the time she’s looking for him’
‘She has had none except with Curley and there has probably been no consummation there’
Crooks’ possessions quotes
‘A little bench for leather working tools, curved knives and needles,
‘A single-barrelled shotgun’
‘He had books, too’
‘A mauled copy of the California civil code 1905’
Crooks quotes on powerlessness
‘Crooks had reduced himself to nothing’
‘I didn’t mean it. Jus foolin. I wouldn’t want to go no place like that’ - Crooks to Candy
Crooks quote on him knowing his rights
‘You got no right to come in my room’
Crooks quote on loneliness
‘I tell ya a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick’
Candy quote on loneliness
‘cause I ain’t got no relatives nor nothing’
Candy quote about him inevitably getting sacked due to his age
‘That dog ain’t no good to himself. I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an a cripple’
Candy quote on his dog being killed
‘I ought to have shot that dog myself George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog’
