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| This is the idea that if you try hard enough you will acheive your dream |
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"Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody never gets no land"
"If you guys would want a hand to work for nothing.." |
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I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend to the chickens and hoe the garden some”
"He stopped overwhelmed with his picture"
"You god damn right we're gonna do it"
"everybody wants a little bit of land, not much" |
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"george sat entranced with his own picture"
"Jesus Christ! I Bet we could swing her" |
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"We could live offa the fatta the land"
"Do I still get to tend the rabbits?"
"Lennie watched him with wide eyes" |
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"he says he was gonna put me in the movies"
"This guy says i was a natural" |
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"He done quite a bit in the ring"
"How Curleys gonna lead with his left twice and bring in the ol' right cross?" |
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| Soledad - Spanish word for solitude of loneliness |
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"hardly none of the guys ever travel together" - slim
"A guy needs somebody to be near him" - crooks
"Everybody went into town, George says i've gotta stay here" - Lennie
"Think i dont like to talk to somebody every once in a while?" - curleys wife
"I got no one" - George |
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Lennie and George have each other
Animals are a temporary solution for Lennie
Curleys wife marries to try and solve her loneliness - doesnt work |
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Only 3 women mentioned in the play - Aunt Clara, Curleys wife and Susy
Seen as objects/possessions "whore house"
Older women seen as motherly - earn reespect after you become a mum
never learn curleys wifes name |
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"She's purty"
"Jailbait set on the trigger"
"Aint she a looloo"
"That girl rabbits in and tells the law she been raped"
"Ranch with a bunch of guys on it aint no place for a girl" |
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seen as easy way to solve a problem
rivalry - lack of job oppurtunity
seen as natural by most |
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"No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me"
"Smitty took after the nigger"
"Gave the Stable Buck hell"
"Im gonna shoot the guts out of that big bastard myself"
"Looks to me like every bone in his hand is bust" |
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| Prejudice - disability & racism |
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Lennie - mentally disabled
Crooks physically disabled, black
treated differently
Lennie - treated as stupid + exploited
Crooks - verbally abused + segregated |
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"The stable bucks a nigger"
"They say i stink, all of you stink to me"
"And a manure pile under the window, sure its swell"
"Listen nigger, you know what i can do to you if you open your trap?"
"Retired into the terrible protective dignity of the negro"
"He's jes like a kid"
"Then why dont you let him answer?"
"gets in trouble all the time cause hes so god damn dumb" |
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