Characters
This mentally strong but physically small man is George’s loyal companion.
Who is George Milton?
The first scene depict George and Lennie running away from Weed because of this event.
What is Lennie grabbing a woman’s red dress?
George and Lennie’s friendship contrasts with this common experience of migrant workers.
What is loneliness?
Gary Sinise directed the movie, and he also played this character.
Who is George Milton?
This tall, strong man has a mental disability and dreams of tending rabbits.
Who is Lennie Small?
George tells Lennie to remember this place in case there is trouble.
What is the riverbank (where they camped at the beginning)?
Candy’s old dog symbolizes this harsh reality of life.
What is aging and weakness?
John Malkovitch played this character.
Who is Lennie Small?
This character is an aging swamper with one hand.
Who is Candy?
The beginning and end of the movie have this in common.
What is a manhunt?
Curley’s wife represents this broader theme in the film.
What is isolation?
The film is an adaptation of a novel by this American author.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This character wears a glove full of Vaseline.
Who is Curley?
Lennie does not visualize these in the movie, but he does in the final chapter of the novella.
What is his Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit?
True or False?
The title Of Mice and Men comes from a Scottish poem.
True! It comes from a poem by Robert Burns, which says in part:
"The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley"
Both the movie and the book take place during this historical period.
What is The Great Depression?
This stable hand is isolated from the other workers.
Who is Crooks?
George is seen there at very the end of the film.
What is a train car?
Lennie’s dream of tending rabbits symbolizes this theme.
What is hope (or the American Dream)?
The 1992 film Of Mice and Men was primarily filmed in this U.S. state.
What is California?