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46 Cards in this Set
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Character
Chapter What about |
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Lennie
The Salinas River Physical Description |
"A huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes. He walked heavily dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws"
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Lennie
The Salinas River Animalistic - Horse |
He "drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse"
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Lennie
The Salinas RIver What happened in Weed |
"You ain't gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed, neither"
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Lennie
The Salinas River Trouble - Rabbits |
"You ain't gonna get in no trouble, because if you do, I won't let you tend the rabbits"
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Lennie
The Fight - The confession Animalistic |
"Covered his face and bleated with terror"
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Lennie
Curley's Wife's Death Puppy death |
"'God damn you, why you gotta get killed? You ain't so little as mice' He picked up the pup and hurled it from him"
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Lennie
Curley's Wife's Death Curley's Wife |
He shook her then... and then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck
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Lennie
Salinas River Return George about to shoot |
"Go on"
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George
Salinas River Physical Description |
"Small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features"
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George
Salinas River What he thinks of Lennie |
"Poor bastard"
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George
Salinas River Lennie's Mouse |
"Give it here!"
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George
Salinas River Life without Lennie |
"If I was alone I would live so easy, I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble"
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George
Salinas River How George truly feels about Lennie |
"No-look! I was jus' foolin', Lennie. 'Cause I want you to stay with me."
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George
Salinas River Other migrant workers |
"Guys like us, that work on the ranches are the loneliest guys in the world... with us it ain't like that... because I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you"
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George
Salinas River Dream |
"someday - we're gonna get the jack together and were gonna have a little house and a couple of acres..."
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George
The confession Confessing how he used to treat Lennie |
"Used to play jokes on 'im 'cause he was too dumb to take care of 'itself."
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George
Curley's wife death Dream over |
"I think i knowed from the very first."
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George
Salinas RIver Return George isn't mad |
"No Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's the thing I want you to know"
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Candy
The bunkhouse arrival Physical Description |
"A tall, stoop-shouldered old man... he was dressed in blue jeans and he carried a big push broom in his left hand... out of his other sleeve came a round stick like wrist but no hand"
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Candy
The bunkhouse arrival Crooks' discrimination |
"He gives the stable buck hell... ya see the stable buck's a ******."
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Candy
The silence Carlson discribes his dog |
"He's all stiff with rheumatism. He ain't no good to you Candy. An' he ain't no good to himself"
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Candy
The silence How lost his hand |
"I lost my hand right here on this ranch... I ain't much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some,,, [I got] three hundred an' fifty bucks I'd put in"
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Candy
Curley's wife's death Their place |
"'You an' me can get this little place, can't we, George?...' Before George answered Candy dropped his head and look at the hay. He knew"
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Slim
The bunkhouse arrival Royalty |
"He was the jerk-line skinner, prince of the ranch"
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Slim
The bunkhouse arrival Presence |
"His ear heard more than was said to him"
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Slim
The Confession George about to confess |
"George fell silent, he wanted to talk. Slim neither encouraged nor discouraged him. He just sat back quiet and receptive"
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Slim
The Silence Candy's dog |
"Carl's right, Candy. That dog ain't no good to himself. I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an' a cripple"
Slim's opinions were law |
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Slim
The bunkhouse arrival Candy compares Slim and Curley |
"Slim don't need no high heeled boots"
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Curley
The bunkhouse arrival Physical Description |
"A young man... [with] a thin brown face, with brown eyes and a head of tight curled hair. He wore a glove on his left hand, and, like the boss, he wore high heeled boots"
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Curley
The bunkhouse arrival Look |
"His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious"
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Curley
The bunkhouse arrival Curley's wife |
"Curley's pants is just crawlin' with ants... she's a jail bait all set on the trigger"
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Curley
The fight Other workers opinions |
"The punk sure had it coming for him"
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Curley
Curley's wife's death How feels about Lennie |
"I'll kill that son of a bitch myself."
"Curley - maybe you better stay here with your wife" |
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Curley
The Salinas River Return Slim and George |
"Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"
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Curley's Wife
All Name |
"Curley's wife"
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Curley's Wife
The Bunkhouse Arrival Light |
"sunshine in the doorway was cut off"
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Curley's Wife
The Bunkhouse Arrival Physical Appearance |
"rouged lips... her finger nails were red... and [she wore] red mules"
"Little rolled clusters, like sausages" |
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Curley's Wife
The outcasts Crooks attack |
"******. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny"
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Curley's Wife
Curley's wife's death Dream |
"A show came through, an' I met one of the actors. He said a could go with that show. But ol' lady wouldn't let me"
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Curley's Wife
Curley's wife's death Death |
"She struggled violently under his hand"
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Crooks
The outcasts Games |
"I can't play because i'm black"
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Crooks
The outcasts Where from |
"I ain't a southern negro... I was born right here in California"
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Crooks
The outcasts Loneliness |
"I tell yer, a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick"
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Crooks
The outcasts Land |
"Everybody want a little piece of lan' "
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Crooks
The outcasts Torture |
"Let's say he want's to come back and can't"
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