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Of Mice And Men Monologue Analysis

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I started to walk away from the tournament, I wanted to get away, to think. No one ever seems to care how I felt. I walk to the barn slowly so Curly wouldn't notice I was leaving when I saw Lennie. I needed to talk to someone, to actually have a really conversation with someone. I kept to my slow pace til he looked up at me. Then, he covered something up in the hay. I said, "What you got there, sonny boy?" Lennie glared up at me. "George says I ain't to have nothing to do with you- talk to you or nothing." I laughed. "George giving you orders about everything?" Lennie looked down at the hay. "Says I can't tend no rabbits if I talk to you or anything." I just want to talk to someone. I said quietly, "He's scared Curley'll get …show more content…

I coulda made somethin' of myself." I said darkly, "Maybe I will yet." And then my words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though I hurried before my listener could be taken away. "I lived right in Salinas," I said. "Come there when I was a kid. Well, a show come through, an' I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol' lady wouldn't let me. She says because I was on'y fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I'd went, I wouldn't be livin' like this, you bet." I got real sad thinking of how my life could have been if my old lady would have let me go. I could have been living in a mansion or a castle, with giant hanging chandeliers all over. And I would wake up with a real man sleeping next to me. And I wouldn't ever have to do anything, my maids would do it all. Oh the life I could have had. Lennie stroked the pup. "We gonna have a little place- an' rabbits," he explained. I went on with my story quickly, before he could interrupt me again. "'Nother time I met a guy, an' he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon's he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it." I looked closely …show more content…

The fingers trailed after my leading wrist, and my finger stuck out grandly from the rest. I could have been famous, I could of had millions of dollars. And no one could of told me that I couldn't talk, I could of talked to who ever I wanted. Then the clang of a horseshoe on metal snapped me back into reality. Then a chorus of cheers and I said "Somebody made a ringer." It was starting to become dark, the light was lifting as the sun went down, and the sun streaks climbed up the wall and fell over the feeding racks and over the heads of the horses. Lennie said, "Maybe if I took this pup out and throwed him away George wouldn't never know. An' then I could tend the rabbits without no trouble." Did he hear a single word of what I just told him? I said angrily, "Don't you think of nothing but rabbits?" "We gonna have a little place," Lennie explained patiently. "We gonna have a house an' a garden and a place for alfalfa, an' that alfalfa is for the rabbits, an' I take a sack and get it all fulla alfalfa and then I take it to the rabbits." What the hell is with him and rabbits? She asked, "What makes you so nuts about

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