Of+Mice+and+Men+Key+Quotes+and+Explenations

=Of Mice and Men Key Quotes and Explanations=

Explanation: They were talking about how life as a farmhand could be tough since most of them live a lonely life with no one to care for them. With George and Lennie, they have a companion to help them through the tough times and who cares about them. Explanation:
 * //"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place....With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us."// Chapter 1, pp. 13-14
 * //"An' why? Because...because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."// Chapter 1, pg. 14
 * //"We could live offa the fatta the lan'."//

Explanation:  The  **fat of the land** is an expression that refers to having the best of everything. In the case of Lennie and George and their dream for a place of their own, it also means that they believe they will be able to survive and prosper by simply relying on what they can grow and raise -- that the land is so "fat" they will need nothing else to be happy. Explanation:
 * //"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 wish somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs."// Chapter 3, pg. 60
 * ==="Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones." Chapter 1, pg. 2===