Of Mice and Men

Question 1

Hopes and Dreams

Answer 1

• “We got a future. We go somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us” - George
• “We could live off the fatta the lan.” - Lennie
• “He said he was gonna put me in the pitchers” - Curley’s Wife
• “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.” - George
• “I seen hunderds of men come by…with…that same damn thing in their heads….got a little piece of land in his head…an’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it.” - Crooks

Question 2

Loneliness

Answer 2

• “Well I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is” - The Boss to George
• “If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.” - Lennie
• “No – look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me.” - George
• “Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.” - Curley’s Wife

Question 3

Prejudice

Answer 3

• ” Sure. Ya see, the stable buck’s a n**” - Candy
• “If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we wont get no job” - George to Lennie
• “The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck dont give a damn about that” - Candy
• “You go get outta my room. I aint wanted in the bunk house, and you aint wanted in my room” - Crooks
• "”Listen n**”, she said. “You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”” - Curley’s Wife to Crooks

Question 4

Misogyny

Answer 4

• “Seems like Curley is cockier’n ever since he got married.” - Candy
• “Well I tell you what - Curley said he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife.” - Candy
• “She’s just a jail bait set on the trigger.” - George
• “But Susy’s place is clean and shes got nice chairs” - Candy
• “Yeah? Married two weeks and she’s got the eye? Maybe that’s wy Curley’s pants is full of ants” - Candy
• “I have never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.” - George

Question 5

Violence

Answer 5

• “His body flopped like a fish”
• a shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man. Every head turned towards him
• “Well then you keep your place then, N**. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny” - Curley’s Wife to Crooks

Question 6

Use of Animal Imagery

Answer 6

• rabbits like grey sculptures
• Dragging his feet the way a bear drags his paws
• Snorting water like a horse

Question 7

George

Answer 7

• “A smart little guy” - Slim
• “God a’mighty if I was alone I could live so easy”
• Small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features
• “Guys like us, that work on the ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world… They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to”
• “Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.”
• “Get ‘i’m, Lennie”

Question 8

Lennie

Answer 8

• A huge man
• Bear drags his paws
• “Ain’t you gonna give me no hell George?”
• Lennie dabbed his big paw into the water
• “George, hows longs it gonna be till we get that little piece an’ live on the fatta the lan’ - an rabbits?”
• “George wun’t go away and leave me. I know George wun’t do that”

Question 9

Slim

Answer 9

• The prince of the ranch
• All talk stopped as he spoke
• Godlike
• “I can tell a mean guy from a mile off”
• “Maybe ever’body in the goddamn world is scared of each other”
• “She slang her pups last night…. nine of ‘em. I drowned four of ‘em right off”

Question 10

Curley

Answer 10

• “Hes alla time pickin scraps with big guys” - Candy
• “Curleys pants is just crawlin with ants” - Whit
• “I’ll kill him myself” - Curley
• “Im gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself
• “Any of you guys seen my wife?”
• “What the hell you laughin’ at”

Question 11

Curley’s Wife

Answer 11

• Leaned against the doorframe so that her body moved forward
• “Tramp” - George
• “You cant blame a man for lookin”
• Full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red…. cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquet of red ostrich feathers”
• “You know what I can do if you open your trap?”

Question 12

Candy

Answer 12

• “I’ve had him since he was a pup”
• “I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens”
• “A guy on a ranch dont never listen nor he don’t ask no questions”
• “I wish somebody shoot me if I got old and crippled”

Question 13

Crooks

Answer 13

• “Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land”
• “A guy needs somebody to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”
• Crooks scowled, but Lennie’s disarming smile defeated him.
• “You got no right to come in my room…Nobody got any right in here but me.”
• “Why ain’t you wanted?” Lennie asked. “‘Cause I’m black.”
• “Guys don’t come into a colored man’s room very much.”

Question 14

Carlson