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Section 4 - Quotations

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Section 4 - Key Quotations

In this section we meet Crooks. The dream farm is brought up by Candy and Crooks is initially eager to join. However, after Curley's wife threatens him, Crooks changes his mind.

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Lennie meets Crooks

  • Crooks to Lennie: “you got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me."
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Crooks talks about his childhood

  • “There wasn't another colored family for miles around”.
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Curley's wife's tauting

  • “They left all the weak ones here”.
  • Threatens to have Crooks “strung up on a tree” when he tells her to leave.

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2Plot

3Key Characters

4Themes

5Authorial Method

6Recap: Main Quotes

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