Of Mice and Men quotes chapter 5

'the Horses stamped their feet and rattled their halter chains' 'there was a buzz of flies in the air'

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'the Horses stamped their feet and rattled their halter chains' 'there was a buzz of flies in the air'

The rattling of the halter chains indicates incoming danger flies represent death and decay

"Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice. I didn't bounce you hard." "Now maybe George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin's out you got killed."

" I get awful lonely"

Curley's wife is desperate for human contact (theme of loneliness )

" I coulda made something of myself"

'Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then, and Lennie's hand closed over her mouth and nose'

Lennie kills Curley's wife

'the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face' 'very pretty and simple' 'sweet and young'

when she's dead

"I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing"

Lennie - use of repetition reflects his childlike mind

" All the time he done bad things but he never done one of 'em mean"

This quote has significance in the story because it conveys how Lennie had done something wrong once again, but how George still stuck by his side and defended him. This quote shows how one action does not define a person. Lennie had killed someone, but George and Candy knew that Lennie was still a good person,

"You god dam*n tramp" "You done it" "You ain't no good now you lousy tart"

Candy 'viciously' blames Curley's wife for the death of the dream

Curley will want to "shoot 'im" suppose they "put 'im in a cage"