Quotation ID Exemplars

"After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."

• Willy says you are worth more dead than alive. I think this foreshadows whats gonna happen with the suicide because he had life insurance of 20,000 I believe and that is how much he was worth dead when he tried working his whole life so that his family could be stable and he thought the only way that could happen was if he died. It shows how this play was a tragedy.

"The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy."

• Ben was saying this to Willy when Willy was in one of his episodes toward the end of the play and I think it means money is out there you just gotta do whatever you have to do for it. I think in Willy's head Ben was in a way telling him its okay to kill yourself because money is the most important thing to Willy.

 "S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. 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."

• Crooks says this to Lennie when he finally lets him into his room. While everyone else is over playinger horseshoes. Crooks is referring to to the fact that being alone is awful and how he's segregated for being black. This also has to do with the theme of loneliness. Because unlike George and Lennie, he is alone, like everyone else in the book.

 "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want."

• In this quote George is explaining and ranting to Lennie on how better life would be without him. He explodes all of his frustration on to Lennie. And I feel like hurts Lennie on the inside. But honestly he is to slow to say anything back. George is hard on Lennie. Read that quote and anyone would think so. But in all reality George loves Lennie to death. And if he feel like he is hard on him just to get him in gear.