Of mice and men quotes Flashcards
(15 cards)
George - typical man in 1930s
“Bitch”
“Jailbait”
“Live of the fatta land”
George - migrant worker caring attitude towards Lennie
“I got you to look after me”
“Shouldn’t let no stranger shoot my dog”
George - tragic hero
“Strong”
“Small” but the bravest
“You crazy bastard”
Curley - normalisation of violence after GD
“Survival of the fittest”
“I’ll shoot him in the guts”
“His rage exploded”
Curley - socio-economic divide due to meritocracy
“Without demanding respect”
“Gives him hell when he is mad”
Curley - wife to portray patriarchal society
“Can’t talk to nobody but Curley”
“I know where they all went”
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy”
Curleys wife - American dream
“Coulda been in the movies and had nice clothes”
“He says I was a natural”
Curleys wife - power because of Curley
“What am I doing? Standing here with a bunch of bindle stiffs”
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain’t even funny”
Curleys wife - loneliness
“I never talk to nobody, I get awful lonely”
“Think I don’t like to someone every once in a while”
Crooks - loneliness
“Little shed leaned of the wall of the ranch”
“S’pose you had to sit here an’ read books”
Crooks - powerlessness
“Reduce himself to nothing”
“Strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
Crooks - American dream
“Nobody ever gets to heaven”
“Nobody ever gets no land”
George and Lennie - interdependency
“I got you to look after me”
“It ain’t like that. We got a future”
George and Lennie - dreams
“Live off the fatta land”
“Tell me how it’s gonna be George”
George and Lennie - reliance
“If I was alone I could live so easy”
“I done a bad thing George”
