Of Mice And Men Flashcards
(41 cards)
Quote to show George’s appearance
“small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features … [with] small, strong hands, slender arms, and thin and bony nose”
Quote to show Lennie as animalistic and inferior to George
“Like a terrier who doesn’t want to approach his master”
Quote to show how George dislikes Lennie
“if I was alone I could live so easy”
Quote to show George’s approval of the relationship
“We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.
Quote to show how Lennie allowed George to dream
“He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would”
Quote to show George’s lost hope in the finale
“I’ll work my month an’ I’ll take my fifty bucks an’ I’ll stay all night in some lousy cat house.”
Quote to show Slim’s approval of the euthanasia
“You had, George. I swear you hadda”
Quote to show Lennie’s generosity to George
“But I wouldn’t eat none, George. I’d leave it all for you.”
Quote to show George and Lennie’s codependency
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you”
Quote to show Lennie’s innate evil
“pinched their heads a little”
Quote to show Lennie’s infantility
“There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong”
Quote to show Candy’s long relationship with his dog
“Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup”
Quote to show Candy’s cowardice
“I ought to of shot that dog myself,”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s loneliness
“what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs—a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep—an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s dream
“An’ a guy tol’ me he could put me in pitchers”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s innate compassion and lack of evil
“the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face.”
Quote to show Curley’s Wife’s racism and picking-on of the weak
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
Quote to show Slim’s status
“Prince of the ranch”
Quote to show Slim’s empathisation skills
“I can tell a mean guy from a mile off”
Quote to show Slim’s use of white lies
“I think you got your han’ caught in a machine.”
Quote to show Slim’s moral code
“A guy got to sometimes”
Quote to show Crooks’ inner niceness
“Crooks scowled, but Lennie’s disarming smile defeated him.”
Quote to show Crooks’ racial isolation
“And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad.”
Quote to show Crooks’ negativity
“They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”
