Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.
A
- 9
- George
- migrant workers - loneliness
- marginalised seen as a burden
2
Q
You can’t get a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time.
A
- 13
- George
- lack of job security; Great Depression
- life for migrant workers
3
Q
Guys like us that live on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world …
A
- 15
- George
- migrant workers
- hierarchy; those low isolated
- Steinbeck worked on ranches
4
Q
An’ live off the fatta the lan’
A
- 16
- Lennie
- futility of dream
- migrant workers life
5
Q
If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won’t get no job…
A
- 8
- Lennie
- lack of job security; Great Depression
- life of migrant workers
- treatment of mentally challenged
