Characters and Characterization
The novella's two main protagonists
Who are George and Lennie?
*Toss Up* Give George's last name and Lennie's ironic last name.
Who is Lennie?
Most characters are united by their d_____ to have control, or agency over their own lives.
What is dreams?
George tells Lennie to _____ ___ ____ _____ if he gets in trouble, which he does.
What is hide in the brush?
The novel ends with George _____ Lennie.
What is shooting (or similar answers)?
Old, swamper, disabled, dead dog
Who is Candy?
Steinbeck frequently blends these two forms of visual imagery to foreshadow that hope is always followed by "dreary prospects."
What are light and dark?
Two "characters" who die in similar manners.
Who are Lennie and Candy's dog?
Crooks the stable buck is isolated from other ranch workers because of his _____.
What is "race" (or similar answers)?
Curley's wife dies when Lennie accidentally breaks her _____.
What is neck?
pugnacious, wiry, boxer, antagonist
Who is Curley?
These animals' whinnying and rattling of chains foreshadows Curley's wife's death.
What are horses?
George would likely have answered, "Yes" to the question in the Cain and Abel story, "Am I my _____ _______?"
What is "brother's keeper?"
Lennie's dream is to have multicolored rabbits and to "live off the fatta the ____."
What is land?
In the quote, "“George said softly, "-I think I knowed from the very first I think I knowed we'd never do her,'" "do her" refers to him achieving his dream and uses this tyPe of figurative langauge.
What is personification?
No first name, dreams deferred, dead
Who is Curley's wife?
The novel is filled with many o______ examples of foreshadowing.
What is ominous?
Curley ignoring the pain Lennie would suffer would be most similar/analogous to how the ship, the ploughman, and shepherd ignored *his* suffering in a famous painting by Pieter Brueghel.
Who is Icarus?
Lennie's primary flaw is his impaired c_______ abilities.
What is cognitive?
George's decision to end Lennie's life may be the p________ choice when he faces an ______ ______, weighing the morality of taking his friend's life and the cons of the pain Lennie will suffer if Curley shoots him.
What is pragmatic; ethical dilemma?
proud, aloof, isolated, self-protective
Who is Crooks?
Lennie grabbing onto a young girl's dress in *this town" foreshadowed that he grabs/holds onto people/things when he is scared and the manner in which Curley's wife dies.
What is Weed?
Two characters who may be the most isolated in the novel, showing they are actually parallel despite conflict between them.
Who are Crooks and Curley's wife?
He convinces Curley to lie and say he got his hand caught in a machine after Curley loses his fight versus Lennie.
Who is Slim?
*Toss Up* Slim's job is the ranches' _______ __________
In the Biblical allusion known as the "C_____ of C____," George may wander the state forever, never realizing his dream.
What is the curse of Cain?
*Toss Up* What type of worker are people like George and Lennie, who are forced to travel to find work?