Quotation Bank: Key Quotes and Motifs

Vocabulary and quotation flashcards based on the lecture mindmap and quotation bank.

Live off the fatta the land

A recurring dream phrase (C1, C2) associated with having their own house, a garden, a place for alfalfa, and tending rabbits.

Western magazine

Reading material that ranch men 'scoff at and secretly love to read' and believe (C2).

Her body flopped like a fish

A simile and quotation from chapter 5 (C5) describing physical death or struggle.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody

A statement from chapter 4 (C4) expressing that a person gets sick and goes nuts when completely isolated without companionship.

Every damn one of them got a little piece of land in his head

An observation from chapter 4 (C4) highlighting the universal, obsessive desire of ranch hands to own land.

she had fully rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up

A quotation from chapter 2 (C2) describing the physical appearance and presentation of Curley's wife looking for Curley.

snorted into the water like a horse

An animalistic description of drinking water in chapter 1 (C1), later contrasting with kneeling down and barely touching lips to the water in chapter 6 (C6).

We got a future. We got somebody that gives a damn about us

A quotation from chapter 1 (C1) emphasizing companionship and mutual care over solitary wandering.

I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny

A quotation from chapter 4 (C4) exerting power and racial threat against Crooks.

coulda been in the movies, an had nice clothes

A quotation from chapter 5 (C5) expressing lost ambitions of glamour, recognition, and wealth.

left all the weak ones here

A quotation from chapter 4 (C4) highlighting the segregation and vulnerability of the marginalized characters remaining in the barn.

thing they had never really believed in was coming true

A quotation from chapter 3 (C3) reflecting the sudden tangible possibility of their shared dream.