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Characters Symbols Themes Significant Quotes Plot

This character wants to take care of the rabbits.

Who is Lennie?

Told Lennie to jump in the lake.

Who is George?

Comforts George at the end of the novel.

Who is Slim?

This character is going to help buy the dream farm with Lennie

and George.

Who is Candy?

Lennie breaks this character’s hand.

Who is Curley?

This represents the destructive nature of the powerful over the

weak.

What is the death of the puppy, or the mice, or the old dog, or

Lennie?

Represents the inevitable death of the American Dream.

What is the sunset?

Represents the hope for the fulfillment of the American

Dream.

What is the letter or the dream farm?

This represents the fate of anyone who has outlived his or her

purpose.

What is Candy’s dog?

Represents innocence and its inevitable downfall in a harsh

world.

What are the rabbits?

The title of the novel is an allusion to this theme.

What is “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”?

The death of Lennie at the end as he thinks about his dream farm

suggests this theme.

What is “the American dream is just a beautiful dream and is not

attainable for most people”?

Curley’s wife’s nasty reaction to Crooks suggests this theme.

What is “victims of discrimination often victimize

others” ?

Only the ____________ survive in this world.

What is strong?

People need __________ in order to be happy.

What is companionship?

Speaker of, “Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to

nobody. I get awful lonely.”

Who is Curley’s wife”?

Significance of “Nine of ‘em. I drowned four of ‘em right off. She couldn’t feed that many."

What is, “this shows Slim’s practical nature”?

Significance of “Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of

lan’…. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.

It’s just in their head. “

What is “the American Dream is just that, a dream”?

Literary device used in “I ought to of shot that dog myself,

George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”

What is foreshadowing?

Literary device used in “A water snake glided smoothly up the

pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the

length of the pool”.”

What is allusion?

This is the reason George and Lennie are running from Weed.

What is Lennie was accused of rape?

Lennie hallucinates about these two “characters” talking to him at

the end of the novel.

Who are Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit?

Lennie wants to “live off the ___________________”.

What is, “the fat of the lan’”?

Curley thinks that __________ is having an affair with his wife.

Who is Slim?

This is what George says happened to Lennie to make him

simple.

What is “he was kicked in the head by a horse”?