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Curley’s Wife
‘She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red’
‘I could get you strung up on a tree so
easy it ain’t even funny.’
‘Coulda been in the movies and had
nice clothes. This guy says I was a
natural.’
George
‘Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family’
‘Lennie obeyed him. George looked
down at the gun.’
‘George scowled at him… Lennie dropped
his head in shame’
Lennie
‘Dragging his feet a little, the way a
bear drags his paws.’
‘Who hurt George? Lennie growled back
to his seat.’
‘George gonna give me hell. George
gonna wish he was alone and not
have me bothering him’
‘He better watch out for Lennie. Lennie
ain’t no fighter, but Lennie’s strong and
quick and Lennie don’t know no rules”
Crooks
Racial slurs used to describe him
throughout
‘You got no right to come in my room.
Nobody got any right in here but me.’
‘If you guys would want a hand to work
for nothing?’
‘What she says is true.’
Candy
(To Curley’s wife) ‘You god dam tramp.
You done it, didn’t you.’
‘Lennie, I been figuring out about them
rabbits.’
‘Ain’t many guys travel around together;
he mused. I don’t know why’
Curley
‘His glanced coldly… calculating and
pugnacious’
‘Get on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is
gonna laugh at me’
‘Curley suddenly came to life. I’m gonna
get him. I’m going for my shotgun.’
Slim
‘He moved with a majesty only achieved by
royalty and master craftsmen’
‘Take a shovel’
(Crooks about Slim) ‘Slim comes in
sometimes. He looks out for his team.’
‘Come on, George. Me and you’ll go
and get a drink.’
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