Section 3 - Quotations
English Lit: Edexcel IGCSE Of Mice & Men, topic 6.1.3
Section 3 - Key Quotations
In section 3 we learn how George and Lennie met. Candy asks if he can go with George and Lennie to their dream farm. Curley starts a fight with Lennie, but Lennie is far stronger.
Lennie
- Slim: thinks Lennie is an excellent worker, even though he’s “cuckoo”.
- George: “he's dumb as hell, but he ain't crazy.”
"Mean"
- George values his friendship with Lennie because it stops him from becoming “mean” like the other ranch workers.
Why Lennie and George left Weed
- George: Lennie “jus' wanted to touch that red dress, like he wants to pet them pups all the time.”
Candy's dog
- Carlson convinces Candy to let him kill Candy’s dog which “jus' suffers hisself all the time.”
The fight between Curley and Lennie
- Lennie looks “helplessly at George”.
- George tells him to fight back and “get him”.
- Curley: “flopping like a fish on a line.”
- Slim makes Curley promise to say that he injured his hand in an accident with a machine: "I think you got your han' caught in a machine.”
Test yourself on Section 3 - Quotations
How does Slim describe Lennie to George?