Of Mice and Men Review
DIRECTIONS: Cut out each description and quote below. Then, glue each description to the matching character and each quote to the character who says it.
1. Shoots Candy’s dog / 2. Has many books and reads them / 3. “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl” (Stein-beck 7). / 4. is “old, stoop-shouldered,”with “bristly white whiskers”
5. “S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hunderd an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some, How’d that be?” (Steinbeck 59). / 6. “—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” (Steinbeck 94). / 7. Once met a man who thought he/she was a natural and promised to send him/her a letter from Hollywood / 8. “Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big sone-of-a-bitch is gonna laught at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella” (Steinbeck 62).
9. Has hands like “bear paws” / 10. “Now what the hell you suppose is eatin’ them two guys?” (Steinbeck 107). / 11. “He ain’t mean. I can see Lennie ain’t a bit mean” (Stein-beck 41). / 12. “Come on in and set a while. ‘Long as you won’t get out and leave me alone, you might as well set down” (Steinbeck 69).
13. “I been thinkin’. That dog of Candy’s is so God damn old he can’t hardly walk. Stinks like hell, too. Ever’ time he comes into the bunk house I can smell him for two, three days” (Stein-beck 36). / 14. “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?” (Steinbeck 77). / 15. Was kicked by a horse, causing his physical deformity / 16. “I don’t like this place, George. This ain’t no good place. I wanna get outa here” (Steinbeck 32).
Of Mice and Men Review
DIRECTIONS: Cut out each description and quote below. Then, glue each description to the matching character and each quote to the character who says it.
17. “Well…tell you what. Curley’s like a little guys. He hates big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy” (Steinbeck 26). / 18. Is referred to as “the prince of the ranch” / 19. Told Lennie to jump in the river as a prank, leading Lennie nearly to drown / 20. Was run out of Weed for touching a girl’s red dress21. When asked if Lennie and George will be canned for the fight in the bunkhouse, this person promises, “I won’t tell” (Steinbeck 65).