OMAM Quotes

Question 1

Candy quotes
(shot, wall, replace, eagerly)

Answer 1

• “I oughta of shot that dog myself, George” (Candy to George)
• “He rolled slowly over and faced the wall”(after Candy’s dog is shot)
• “Why’n’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up?” (Carlson) [replacement of dog mirrors replacement of candy]
• “Leaned forward eagerly” (Candy) [wanting to join George and Lennie in the AD]

Question 2

Georges quotes
(fatta, jump, Clara)

Answer 2

• “Live off the fatta the lan”
• “Jump in. An’ he jumps”(George about Lennie)
• “Your Aunt Clara wouldn’t like you running off” (George to Lennie)

Question 3

George’s quotes
(nicer, alone no good)

Answer 3

• “It’s a lot nicer to go around with a guy I know” (George)
• “I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good” (George)

Question 4

Crooks quotes
(n____, strung, southern negro, lips, no right)

Answer 4

• “Stable buck’s a n_____“(candy to george)
• “I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny” (curley’s wife to crooks)
• “I ain’t a Southern negro”
• ”pain tightened lips”
• “You got no right to come in my room…“

Question 5

Crooks quotes

(shed, Crooks’s room, bunkhouse)

Answer 5

• “a little shed”
• ”What are you doing in Crooks’s room? You should not be here”
• “I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse ‘cause I’m black”

Question 6

Curley’s wife quotes
(tart, awful, strung)

Answer 6

• “Well, I think Curley’s married…a tart”
• “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”
• ”I could get you strung up a tree so fast it ain’t even funny” (Curley’s wife to Crooks) [consoling her wounded pride]

Question 7

Curley’s wife quotes
(especially, movies, fish)

Answer 7

• “Ain’t no place for girls especially ones like her” (about curley’s wife)
• “He says he was gonna put me in the movies”
• “Her body flopped like a fish”