Of Mice and Men Flashcards
(33 cards)
“He ain’t mean”‘repeated in…
Start of Chapter 3
Lennie: “I done a real bad thing… I shouldn’t have did that. George’ll be mad.”
Bases his moral judgement on what George will think
Lennie “sure can…
take his orders.”
Lennie: “Sure he’s jes’ like a kid…
There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong.”
George: “I ain’t nothing…
to scream about, but Lennie…”
George: “restless…
eyes.”
George: “We kinda
look after each other.”
George: “You keep
away from Curley, Lennie.”
George: “Guys like us, that
work on a ranch, are the loneliest guys in the world.”
George: “We got…
a future.”
George “-I think I knowed…
from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her.”
George symbolises
the average migrant worker.
Slim: “there was ___ in his manner”
Gravity; suggests power, strength & security
Slim CRUEL vs KIND
CRUEL; agrees Candy’s dog must be shot
KIND; gives Lennie a puppy
Modifiers used to make Slim appear God-like:
Royalty
Majesty
Prince of the Ranch
Slim is more like…
A set of values than a real personality.
Slim can be used to…
set a benchmark to compare other characters to.
Slim doesn’t need
“no high heeled boots”
Slim is angry when…
Curley is cruel to Lennie, because he has a strong sense of justice
Candy
has a physical weakness
can be malicious
(because he is malicious)
Curley is
a major figure to present theme of injustice
Curley “won’t ever
get canned cause he’s the old man’s boss”
Curley “ain’t
a nice fella”
Crooks is
the only character to identify dreams are unrealistic.
