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16 Cards in this Set
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Lennie
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Large, strong guy with a slight mental disability
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George
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Tall, skinny, devoted, quick-witted farm worker
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Candy
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Farm hand disabled by machinery and devoted to his old dog
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Crooks
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Black stableboy with a crooked back and aloof tendencies
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Curley
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Boss's son who tends to tell everybody what to do and unfairly punishes the men that are even near his new wife
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Slim
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Skillful mule driver with much power over the others at the ranch and is at peach with himself
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Carlson
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Complains about and kills Candy's dog & his gun is used to kill Lennie
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Aunt Clara
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Woman who took care of Lennie his whole life until George did, was very caring and compassionate
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Whit
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Ranch Hand
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Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.
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George on Friendship
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“S’pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing. We’d just go to her, We wouldn’t ask nobody if we could. Jus’ say, ‘We’ll go to her,’ an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her.”
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George on the freedom if their dream
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3. A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by. I seen things out here. I wasn’t drunk. I don’t know if I was asleep. If some guy was with me, he could tell me I was asleep, an’ then it would be all right. But I jus’ don’t know.
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Crooks on the good things about friendship
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I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
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Crook's reality check for George and Lennie
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"Maybe everybody in the world is scared of each other"
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Slim on why nobody taking straightforwardly
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Old Susy's Place
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The inexpensive bar where the farm crew spends their free time (Flophouse)
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Salinas
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Town where George and Lennie Started
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