Vishal Kattoju

English 9H/Period # 7

Date

Of Mice and Men

Page Quotations Commentary/Analysis

“Hide till I come for you … Stay over This sentence shows character
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there.” development because it represents how

protective George is being towards

Lennie. Also, this shows that he has

gotten more clever, and is able to sense

when danger is coming.

She took Lennie's hand and put it on

90 The climax of the story is when Lennie
her head. "Feel right aroun' there an'
accidentally kills Curley's wife because he
see how soft it is." Lennie's big fingers
likes touching soft things. We know that
fell to stroking her hair. "Don't you
something is going to go wrong because of
muss it up," she said. Lennie said,
events that happened in the middle of the
"Oh! That's nice," and he stroked
book. Lennie touches a woman in a red
harder. "Oh, that's nice."
dress, which creates a huge ruckas. So

the author creates a pattern that shows

 that something is going to go wrong here

also.

"…If I was bright, if I was even a little bit George seems to think that he could
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smart, I'd have my own little place, an' achieve the elusive American Dream of

I'd be bringing' in my own crops, 'stead having his "own little place" if he were just

of doing' all the work and not getting a little smarter. But from what we see, it

what comes up outta the ground." has nothing to with smarts and everything

to do with the odds being stacked against

him. If everyone could achieve the

American Dream, then it wouldn’t be a

dream.

"Guys like us, that work on It is very hard out there on the ranch
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ranches, are the loneliest guys in Steinbeck seems to be saying that the

the world. They got no family. They loneliness is even worse than the poverty:

don't belong no place. They come like Lennie and George, you can bear a lot

to a ranch an' work up a stake and more if you have a friend.

then they go inta town and blow

their stake, and the first thing you

know they're poundin' their tail on

 some other ranch. They ain't got

nothing to look ahead to.

“S’pose they was a carnival or a circus For the men on the ranch, life is hard and
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come to town, or a ball game, or any holds few rewards, but George, Lennie,

damn thing.” Old Candy nodded in and Candy are going on because they

appreciation of the idea. “We’d just go think they will one day own their own

to her,” George said. “We wouldn’t ask place. This dream lies in the freedom it

nobody if we could. Just’ say, ‘We’ll go symbolizes, and its escape from other

to her,’ an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow people's backbreaking work and spirit-

and sling some grain to the chickens breaking will.

an’ go to her.”