Remembering the quotes

Question 1

name the quotes for Curley’s wife’s

Answer 1

• ‘She had full rouged lips . . . her finger-nails were red, . . . her voice had a brittle quality … and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward’.
• “don’t you ever take a look at that b*tch. . . I seen ’em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her”
• “Coulda’ been in the movies. . . an’ had pitchers took of me.”
  ‘You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?’

Question 2

name the quotes to describe Curley

Answer 2

• ‘Curley’s rage exploded’
• ‘Curley was balanced and poised’
• ‘He worked himself into a fury’
• ‘Glove fulla Vaseline’
• ‘Keepin’ that hand soft for his wife’
• ‘Wears high heeled boots’
• ‘Pugnacious’

Question 3

name the quotes to describe Candy

Answer 3

• ‘A round stick like wrist but no hand’
• ’ When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.’
• ‘I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to have let no stranger shoot my dog’
• ‘Blind old eyes’
• ‘Struggled lamely’
• ‘This thing they had never really believed in was coming true’
• ‘I think I knowed we’d never do her’ – George

Question 4

name the quotes to describe Crooks

Answer 4

• ‘a long box filled with straw on which his blankets were flung’
• ‘crooks’ face lit up with pleasure’
• ‘a guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody’ and if ‘a guy gets too lonely he gets sick’
• ‘nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.’
• ‘crooks seemed to grow smaller, … [he] reduced himself to nothing’

Question 5

name the quotes to describe George

Answer 5

‘So nice if I didn’t have you on my tail’
‘We kind look after each other’
‘Guys like us, that work on the ranches, are the
loneliest guys in the world… They ain’t got nothing to
look ahead to.’
‘George’s voice was taking on a tone of confession’

Question 6

name the quotes to describe Slim

Answer 6

‘Moved with majesty’
‘Royalty’
‘Prince of the ranch’
‘Slim’s opinions were law’
‘there was a gravity in his manner’
‘Slim’s calm invitation to confidence’
‘God like eyes fastened on him’
‘George’s voice was taking on a tone of confession’
‘Me an’ you’ll go in an’ get a drink’

Question 7

Name the quotes to describe Lennie

Answer 7

‘a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders’
‘a bear drags his paws.’
‘George wun’t go away and leave me. I know George wun’t do that.’
‘Come on George. Tell me please George. Like you done before.’
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.”