dreams

• ”well just forget it’ said Crooks ‘I didn’t mean it. Jus’ fooling I wouldn’t want to go no place like that”. - says crooks after curleys wife destroys his confidence
• ”If you guys want a hand to work for nothing - just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand” - Crooks while talking to Candy and Lennie in his room
• Curley’s wife destroys this idea when she destroys his confidence and his hopes for the future with the threat to get him “strung on a tree”
• • “I coulda made somethin’ of myself” - Curley’s wife talking to Lennie just before he kills her.
• “When they can me here I wish some body’d shoot me” - candy after they shoot his
• “so I married Curley” - Marries Curley because as a women in 1930's she had very few options. She also believes that her mother destroys her letter but in reality it was most likely never sent - shows her naivety
• ”Live off the fatta the land” - George, Self sufficient
• ”We’d belong there… we’d have our own place where we belonged” - George, Security