1. A) What Type of Relationship Is Developing Between Slim and George?

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Chapter Three

1. a) What type of relationship is developing between Slim and George?

b) What secret does George tell Slim?

2. In what way is Lennie like a kid rather than an adult? Give an example. P43 sleeps in the barn w the puppies

3. a) Who is Crooks? b) How did he get his name?

4. a) Who shoots Candy's dog?

b) How was Slim like a judge? How did his pass verdict on the dog?

5. Tell how the shooting of Candy’s dog is symbolic of Candy's own life on the ranch.

6. State what the atmosphere is like in the bunk house just before the gun shot rang out in the air.

Part #2

7.(a) Who is old Susy? (b) Who is Clara?

8. How much does Susy and Clara charge?

9. How much money does Candy have saved?

10. a) How did Curley hurt his hand?

b) What story did he promise to tell about his injury? Why would he agree to go along with this lie?

11. Summarize the discussion between Candy, George and Lenny on pages 59-60.

12. What does Candy say about having let Carlson shoot the dog?

Quotation Analysis

·  p. 39 “Oh I dunno. Hardly none of the guys ever travel together. I hardly ever seen two guys travel together. You know how the hands are, they come in and get their bunk, and then they quit and go out alone. Never seem to give a damn about nobody.”

How is Slim’s observation about other men (“hands”) different from his observations about George and Lennie? What is George’s reaction to his observation?

·  Reread pages 57-58. George paints their fantasy for Lennie again. Discuss the following lines specifically.

“We’d jus’ live there. We’d belong there. There wouldn’t be no more runnin’ round the country gettin’ fed by a Jap cook. No, sir, we’d have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house.”