American Dreaming
To live off the "fatta the land" and be their own boss.
What is George and Lennie's American Dream?
"Candy did not answer. The silence fell on the room again" (48).
What is personification?
The town that Lennie and George were fleeing from in chapter one.
What is weed?
The time era that this book takes place.
What is the Great Depression?
@AuntClara'sBaby
Who is Lennie?
To be a boxer.
What is Curley's American Dream?
"...drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse" (3).
What is a simile?
This character discovered Curley's dead wife.
Who is Candy?
The cause of the Great Depression.
What is "Black Tuesday" or the stock market crash?
@LocalPopTart
Who is Curley's Wife?
To find a safe place to live where he is accepted and going to have a job.
What is Candy's American Dream?
"The sun streaks were high on the wall by now, and the light was growing soft in the barn" (92).
What is personification?
What is...
The setting of this novel that is historically accurate because of its better land, more jobs, and gold.
What is the "promised land" or California?
@Igotmyeyeonyou
Who is the boss?
To be treated equally and accepted in all spaces.
What is Crooks' American dream?
"Curley's pretty handy. He done quite a bit in the ring" (26).
What is an idiom?
Before George meets Lennie at the brush he takes this character's gun.
What is Carlson's Luger?
Places where makeshift shacks were created outside of cities during the Great Depression. (Hint: Named after the former president).
What are Hoovervilles?
@Mybuddyisinamagazine
Who is Whit?
To be in "pitchers" and wear "nice clothes" (82).
What is Curley's Wife's American Dream?
"A light of understanding broke on Lennie's face" (7).
What is a metaphor?
Lennie hallucinates these two things before George emerges at the brush.
What is a rabbit and his Aunt Clara?
The opposite of inflation in the economy.
What is deflation?
@TheLaw
Who is Slim?