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Explanation of the famous quotes in Of Mice and Men, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Candy cried, "Sure they all want it. Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it.
- Opening Lines
- "There Is A Path Through The Willows..."
- Lennie and The Mouse
- Crooks's Speech
- Lennie and George's Farm Conversation
This passage, which serves as the novel's opener, establishes from the very beginning the importance of land and nature to the text — specifically, an idealized version of nature. The river runs “deep and green,” the water is “warm,” the sands are “yellow…in the sunlight,” the foothills “golden,” the mountains “strong,” and the willows “fresh and g...
Untouched, that is, until the beginning of the second paragraphwhen into this scene come “boys,” and “tramps,” who wreak all manner of havoc on this natural scene. The path through the willows soon becomes a “path beaten hard" as the men walk all over it, ruining it of its proper tenderness. There is an “ash pile by many fires,” which suggests more...
This statement, made by George to Lennie, reveals Lennie’s gentle nature, as well as his inability to prevent his physical power from bringing destruction upon those smaller than him. Throughout the novel, Lennie is often seen petting soft objects, ranging from a mouse to a rabbit to a woman's hair. In this particular passage, nothing of consequenc...
In this speech, a farmhand named Crooks rejects Lennie’s notion that he and George will one day buy a piece of land and live off of it. Crooks claims that he has heard many people make these sorts of claims before, but that none of them have ever come to fruition; rather, he says “it’s just in their head.” This statement encapsulates Crooks’ (justi...
This exchange between George and Lennie takes place at the end of the novel. In it, the two charactersdescribe for each other the farm they hope to live on one day. They plan to have rabbits, pigs, cows, chickens, and alfalfa, none of which they currently have access to on the barley farm. The dream of having their own farm is a refrain to which th...
- Quentin Cohan
‘Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ that was his. Som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it.’ (Candy to Crooks) Chapter 4. George said softly, ‘I think I knowed from the very first I think I knowed we’d never do her.
In Chapter 4 of Of Mice and Men, what does Candy reveal to Crooks and Lennie about their dream of owning land?
A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick" (80).
This dovetails with NYU Professor Scott Galloway’s new book, which says that an increase in the number of broke, uneducated, and alone men will produce more susceptibility to insane and dangerous ideologies and consipracy theories, and violence in the form of homicide, rape, and mass shootings.
