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What is a symbolism of the dreams of the itinerate workers?
The fire
George on life without Lennie
When I think of the swell time I could have without you, I go nuts. I never get no peace.
Guys like us...
Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.
Because I got...
because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you.
The boss on George and Lennie
Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.
Slims status
Slim don't need to wear no high-heeled boots on a grain team.
George's symbol of loneliness
Solitaire cards. Shuffling them or not
Slim on loneliness and fear
Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
Slim on the guys 1
Hardly none of the guys ever travel together
Slim on the guys 2
Never seem to give a damn about nobody.
George on life with Lennie
But you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.
Candy on his dogs death
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
Crooks on guys talking 1
I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference.
Crooks on what George can tell Lennie
George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.
Lennie on life without George
I don' know. Say, what you doin' anyways? This ain't true. George ain't got hurt.
Crooks not having anybody
S'pose you didn't have nobody.
Crooks on loneliness.
A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
Crooks on his room
Guys don't come into a coloured man's room very much.
Curley's wife on fear
You're all scared of each other, that's what. Ever' one of you's scared the rest is goin' to get something on you.
Crooks loneliness symbolism
Alarm clock, shotgun, books, copy of the California civil code for 1905.
Curley's wife on what she's doing
An' what am I doin'? Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs-a n----- an' a dum-dum and a lousy ol' sheep-an' likin' it because they ain't nobody else.
Curley's wife on her loneliness
Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.
Curley's wife on her right to talk to people
Wha's the matter with me? Ain't I got a right to talk to nobody?
Lennie on comfort
I like to pet nice things with my fingers, sof' things.
Candy on his greatest fear
You an' me can get that little place, can't we, George? Can't we?
George on lost hopes
I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.
George on guys like us opposite
I'll work my month an' I'll take my fifty bucks an' I'll stay all night in some lousy cat house. Or I'll set in some poolroom till ever'body goes home. An' then I'll come back an' work another month an' I'll have fifty bucks more.
Because I got you before Lennie's death
Because I got you an'
An' I got you. We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.
George on the place before Lennie's death
No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place.
George's 2nd last words to Lennie
No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know.
Lennie's last words
Le's do it now. Le's get that place now.
George's last words to Lennie
Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta.
Slim to George after Lennie's death
You hadda, George. I swear you hadda.
Not quote, when the dream starts to come true.
This thing they had never really believed in was coming true
Famous heaven and land quote
Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.
Crooks on distance - not quote
He kept his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs.
George on future
We got a future.
Candy on him getting shot
I wish somebody'd shoot me when I ain't no good no more
George mouse quote
I ain’t takin’ it away jus’ for meanness.
Lennie to crooks about land
It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'
Slim on nice guys
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.
Crooks on land in their head
…every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head.
Lennie whole sentence live off the fatta the lan
"It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.”
George peacefulness quote
Tonight I’m gonna lay right here and look up. I like it.
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