Learn these quotations and success should be yours!
The Dream – something “reprehensible”
“We’re gonna have a little house, an’ a coupla acres … an’ live of the fatta the lan’.” -G. and L.’s dream
“Every damn one of ‘ems gotta little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it.”
“I planted crops for damn near ever’body in this state, but they wasn’t my crops and … it wasn’t none of my harvest.” -Candy
Lennie “usta like to hear about it [the dream] so much I got to thinking that maybe we would.” -George
Loneliness
“Guys like us, that work on the ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.” -George
“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.” -Crooks
“What the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?” –Carlson after Lennie’s death
Prejudice
“ It’s just a nigger saying it, and a busted back nigger.” –Cr.
Society Lacks Compassion
“When they can me here I wish’t somebody’d shoot me.” –Candy
“S’pose they lock him up and strap him down and put him in a cage.” -Slim describes what will happen to Lennie if he is caught by the sheriff.
George and Lennie
“Lennie, for God’s sake, don’t drink so much.” –George plays a paternal role for Lennie
Lennie has a ‘big paw’: Steinbeck uses bestial language to describe Lennie
“I ain’t mad. I never been mad.” –George reassures Lennie before shooting him as a mercy killing.
“If I was bright… I’d have my own little place, an’ I’d be bringin’ in me own crops.” –George
IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SIMPLY LEARN THESE QUOTATIONS. YOU MUST STUDY ALL YOUR NOTES.
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