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23 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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Candy’s regret (his dog) |
“I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog” |
He regrets letting someone shoot his dog |
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Candy’s relationship with his dog is important to him because he... |
“had him since he was a pup” |
He has had him for a long time |
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Candy’s dog symbolises him |
“a drag-footed sheep dog, grey of muzzle and with pale, blind old eyes” |
Description of the dog |
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Why Candy wants the American Dream so badly |
“I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs” |
He has nowhere else to go and nothing else he can do with his life |
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Candy in denial of letting the Dream go |
“You an’ me can go there an’ live nice can’t we George? Can’t we? |
After finding Curley’s wife killed by Lennie |
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Lennie admires George |
“imitated George exactly” |
He does the same as him |
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Lennie animal imagery |
“they way a bear drags his paws” |
Bear |
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Discrimination (Lennie, Curley’s wife, Candy and Crooks) |
“weak ones” |
After being left behind on the ranch whilst the other men go out |
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Discrimination against the disabled (Lennie) |
“crazy bastard” |
George calls Lennie this often |
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Lennie’s dream |
“An’ live off the fatta the lan’” |
Where he wants to live |
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George and Lennie’s friendship |
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you” |
They look after each other |
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George reciting the story (American Dream) to Lennie |
“Go on, George” |
Lennie asking to hear the story |
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Slim’s importance on the ranch |
“prince of the ranch” |
Royalty |
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Slim’s authority |
“his authority was so great that his word was taken upon any subject” |
His opinion |
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Everyone listens to Slim |
“there was gravity in his manner... all talk stopped when he spoke.” |
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Slim’s advice or opinion is always listened to |
“Candy looked to Slim for reversal. Slim gave him none.” |
Candy only lets Carlson shoot the dog, after seeing that Slim agrees with Carlson that it’s the right thing to do |
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Curley’s wife is lonely |
“I get awful lonely” |
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Curley’s wife is called names |
“tart” and “jail bait” |
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Curley’s wife takes any chance to prove her authority and Crooks is always under threat |
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny |
This phrase shows how people used to take the law into their own hands (lynching) |
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Crooks felt threatened and belittled by Curley’s wife |
“Crooks had reduced himself to nothing” |
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Crooks has no proper bed |
“Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw” |
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Crooks has been on the ranch much longer than the other men, so he has a lot of possesions |
“he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back” |
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Crooks is lonely |
“It was difficult for Crooks to conceal his pleasure with anger” |
He enjoys company, but puts on a tough front |
