5-6

"Why do you got to get killed?"

Lennie

"You ain't so little as mice. I didn't bounce you hard."

Lennie

"Now maybe George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin's out you got killed."

Lennie

"This ain't no bad thing like I got to go hide in the brush"

Lennie

"Oh! No. This aint. I'll tell George I foun' it dead."

Lennie

"But he'll know. George always knows."

Lennie

"You done it. Dont try to put nothing over on me."

Lennie thinking of what George would say

"Now just for that you don't get to tend no rabbits!"

Lennie explaining George's reaction to finding out he killed the puppy

"******** you"

Lennie

"Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice."

Lennie

"Now I won't get to tend the rabbits. Now he won't let me."

Lennie

"You wasn't big enough. They tol' me and tol' me you wasn't. I didn't know you'd get killed so easily."

Lennie

"Maybe George won't care."

Lennie

"This here little God dang son of a ***** wasn't nothing to George."

Lennie

"What you got there, sonny boy?"

Curley's wife

"George says I ain't to have nothing to do with you--talk to you or nothing."

Lennie

"George giving you orders about eveyrthing?"

Curley's wife`

"He's scared Curley'll get mad, Well, Curley got his arm in a sling- an' if Curley gets tough, you can break his other han'."

Curley's wife

"You didn't put nothing over one me about gettin it caught in no machine."

Lennie's wife

"All the guys got a horseshoe tenement goin' on."

Curley's wife

"Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."

Curley's wife

"How'd you like not to talk to nobody?"

Curley's wife

"What you got covered up there?"

Curley's wife

"Why's he dead?"

Curley's wife

"Don't you worry none. He's just a mutt. You can get another one easy. The whole country is fulla mutts."

Curley's wife

"It ain't that so much."

Lennie

"Don't you worry about talking to me."

Curley's wife

"Listen to the guys yell out there. They got four dollar bet in that tenement. None of them ain't gonna leave till it's over."

Curley's wife

"What's the matter with me?"

Curley's wife

"Whatta they think I am, anyways? You're a nice guy."

Curley's wife

"I tell you I ain't used to livin like this."

Curley's wife

"I coulda made somethin' of myself."

Curley's wife

"I lived right in Salinas"

Curley's wife

"Nother time I met a guy, an' he was in pitches. Went out to the riverside Dance Palace with him."

Curley's wife

"I never got that letter."

Curley's wife

"Well, I wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn;t get nowhere or make something of myself, an' where theyt stole your letters."

Curley's wife

"You listenin'?"

Curley's wife

"Well, I ain't told this to nobody before. Maybe I ought'n to."

Curley's wife

"He ain't a nice fella."

Curley's wife

"Somebody made a ringer."

Curley's wife

"Maybe if I took this pup out and throwed him away George wouldn't never know. An' then I could tend the rabbits without no trouble."

Lennie

"Don't you think of nothing but rabbits?"

Curley's wife

"What makes you so nuts about rabbits?"

Curley's wife

"An' they was nice, you bet."

Lennie

"I think you're nuts."

Curley's wife

"Well, who don't?"

Curley's wife

"Ever'body likes that. I like to feel silk an' velvet. Do you like to feel velvet?"

Curley's wife

"You bet, by God."

Lennie

"I ain't seen it for a long time."

Lennie talking about velvet

"But a person can kinda see what you mean."

Curley's wife

"Here--feel right here."

Curley's wife

"Don't you muss it up."

Curley's wife

"Oh! That's nice."

Lennie

"You stop it now, you'll mess it all up."

Curley's wife

"Please, don't"

Lennie

"Now don't, I don't want you to yell."

Lennie

"Don't you go yellin'"

Lennie

"I don't want ta hurt you."

Lennie

"In the brush til he come.. that's what he said."

Lennie

"I'll throw him away."

Lennie

"it's bad enough like it is."

LEnnie

"Oh, Lennie! You in here?

Candy

"I been figuring some more. Tell you what we can do, Lennie."

Candy

"I di'nt know you was here,"

Candy

"You oughten to sleep out here."

Candy

"Oh, Jesus Christ!"

CandyG

"What was it you wanted to see me about?"

George

"What's the matter with her?"

George

"What done it?"

Candy

"Aint you got any idear? I should of knew"

George

"What we gonna do now, George?"

Candy

"Guess... we gotta tell the... guys... I guess we gotta get 'im an' lock 'im up."

George

"We can't let 'im get away."

George

"You oughtta let 'im get away. You don't know that Curley. Curley gon'ta wanta get 'im lynched."

Candy

"Curley'll get 'im killed."

Candy

"That's right. Curley will. An' the other guys will."

George

"You an' me can get that little place, can't we, George? You an' me can go there an' live nice, can't we, George? Can't we?"

Candy

"I think I knowed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we woud."

George

"Then---it's all off?"

Candy

"I'll work my month an' take my 50 bucks an I'll stay all night in some lousy cat house."

George

""He's such a nice fella, I didn't think he'd do nothing like this."

Candy

"Lennie never done it in meanness."

George

"Now listen. We gotta tell the guys."

George

"They ain't no way out. Maybe they won't hurt 'em."

George

I ain't gonna let em' hurt Lennie

George

"Sure, George. Sure I'll do that."

Candy

"You ******** tramp."

Candy

"You done it, di'nt you? I s'pose you're glad. Everybody knowed you'd mess things up."

Candy

"You wasn't no good. You ain't no good now, you lousy tart."

Candy

"I couldv'e hoed in the garden and washed dishes for them guys."

Candy

"If they was a circus or a baseball game... we would of went to her."

Candy

"jus' said 'ta hell with work, an went to her. Never ast nobody's say-so."

Candy

"An' they'd of been a pig and chickens. an' in the winter... the little fat stove.. an' the rain keep comin'.. an' jus' settin' there."

Candy

"I know who done it,"

Curley

"That big son of a ***** done it. I know he done it."

Curley

"Why--everybody else was out there playin' horseshoes."

Curley

"I'm gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun."

Curley

"I'll kill the big son of ***** myself. I'll shoot em' in the guts."

Curley

"Come on, you guys."

Curley

"I'll get my Luger."

Carlson