Of mice and men quote Flashcards
(14 cards)
six key Gorge quotes
“sharp, strong, features.”
Chapter 1
“”I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean.” chap 1
“I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her.”
Chap 6
“We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” - Chap 1
” I could get along so easy, and so nice if i didn’t have you on my tail”
- Chapter 1
-“How’d you eat? You ain’t got sense enough to find a meal” chap 1
Four key Lennie quotes
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you.” - Chapter 1
“Tell about the rabbits, George.” - Chapter 6 and 1
“I like to pet soft things with my fingers, soft things.” Chapter 5
“Le’s do it now. Le’s get that place now.” Chapter 6
I didn’t wanta hurt him.” - chapter 3
key quotes on Candy
“I ain’t much good, but I can still work.” - chapter 3
“S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty dollars I’d put in.” - Chapter 3
“I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup.” Chapter 3
“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought let no stranger shoot my dog.” Chapter 3
“They’ll can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me on the county.” (Candy, Section 3).
Three key quotes on Candys dog
“I had him too long. I had him since he was a pup.” - chapter 3
“I wish somebody’d shoot me if I get old an’ a cripple.” - chapter 3
‘’I ought to have shoot that dog myself, George/ I Shouldn’t to of let no stranger shoot my dog,’’ - Chapter 3
Crooks on lonliness
“A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody.” chapter 4
“There wasn’t another coloured family for miles around. And now there ain’t a colured man on this ranch.” Chap 4
“They dont let me play cards. they say i stink”
Crooks quote on defensive due to bitter treatement of racism
“You got no right to come in my room. Nobody got a right but me.”
- Chapter 4
- repition of right
- emotinal tone
- Shows how the segregation of the Jim Crow laws has effected Crooks, with him using survial instincts
Crooks breif belief lonliness
“S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldnt go to the bunkhouse.”
opens up to Lennie and begins to think he could be part of dream and connect
- Chapter 4
Quote on Curley
“His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious.”
- chapter 2
“Curley is like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla times picking scraps with big guys”
-chapter 2
” I seen her give Slim the eye.”
- chap 2
“Im gonna shoot the guts out of that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand.” Chapter 5
“Curleys says hes keeping that hand soft for his wife.”
Candy quotes on appearance
“A tall, stooped sholdered old man came in,”
three quotes for Curleys wife
“I never get to tallk to nobody. I get awfully lonely.”
Chapter 5
“Well I think Curley’s married… a tart,”
- Crooks Chapter 2
“I coulda made somethin’ of myself… I coulda been in the movies. An’ had nice clothes – all them nice clothes like they wear”
- Chapter 5
“She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.” Chapter 2
“they left all the weak ones here” - Chapter 4
George killing Lennie
“His hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steaded,”
Slim quotes
“Slims word was law,” chapter 2
” His ears heared more than what was said to them” chapter 2
“You hadda George. I swear you hadda.”
“I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple.” chapter 3
“A guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella.” section 3
Racism towards Crooks from Curley’s Wife
“strung up on a tree so easy it aint even funny.”
(lynching)
Refrences to light
“the sun streaks climbed up the wall” (Section 5)
the sun streaks were high on the wall by now, and the light was growing soft
in the barn” (Section 5)
