The Bunkhouse

Of Mice and Men · John Steinbeck

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Lennie's closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand.
Chapter 3 · Narrator · ★★★★☆
You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me.
Chapter 3 · Candy · ★★★★☆
Slim jumped up. 'The dirty little rat,' he cried, 'I'll get 'um myself.'
Chapter 3 · Narrator, Slim · ★★★★☆
Slap 'im, George. Make 'um let go.
Chapter 3 · Slim · ★★★★☆
“Got no teeth,” he said. “He’s all stiff with rheumatism. He ain’t no good to you, Candy. An’ he ain’t no good to himself. Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?”
Chapter 3 · Carlson · ★★★★☆
She had full, rouged lips and wide–spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages.
Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆
The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.
Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆
“Well, that glove’s fulla vaseline.” “Vaseline? What the hell for?” “Well, I tell ya what—Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife.”
Chapter 2 · Candy · ★★★☆☆
And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.
Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆
in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆

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