| A | B |
| George Milton | small, quick, dark of face, sharp features |
| Lennie Small | Huge, shapeless face, large pale eyes, walks heavily |
| Mice | Lennie loves to pet them to Death |
| Lennie's pocket | Where he hides the mice he pets |
| Soledad | Location of the ranch |
| Salinas River | River on the ranch |
| Weed incident | Lennie scared a girl by holding onto her dress. |
| Dream of Lennie and George | To own a place of their own and have rabbits. |
| Meeting Spot | Where they camped the first night. |
| Stable Buck | Crooks, black man with a crooked back |
| Small | Lennie's last name |
| Milton | George's last name |
| George's care of Lennie | "told his old lady he would take care of him" |
| Curley | Rancher's married son |
| Curley wears | A glove with vasoline to keep his hand soft. |
| Curley's Wife | a "tart" too much make-up, flirts |
| Slim | the Jerkline Skinner |
| Lennie and George travel together | Lennie's parents not there and his Aunt Clara died. |
| Lennie's childhood | Raised by Aunt Clara -no parents |
| River Incident | George told Lennie to jump in and he almost drowned. |
| George told Slim about Weed | Lennie wanted to touch a girl's red dress. |
| Curley is upset with himself. | He told George he should have killed his own dog. |
| Curley and Lennie | Fight because Curley thinks he is laughing at him. |
| Mauled Hand | Lennie crushes Curley's hand in the fight. |
| Crooks visited by Lennie | Crooks is private doesn't like it because he can't go into the bunkhouse. |
| Lennie tells Crooks | About the place he, George and Candy want. |
| Crooks re:George and Lennie's dream | Crooks says they won't make it, they'll spend their stake. |
| Crooks re: George's money | Believes he'll spend it in town. |
| Curley's wife in Crooks' room | She says she is lonely. |
| Curley's wife's threat | She says she could get Crooks hung. |
| Lennie's puppy | He hits it and kills it;will not be able to get rabbits. |
| Lennie in the barn | Curley's wife visits him. |
| Curley's wife and show business | Her mother didn't give her the letters. |
| Curley's wife married him because | She wanted to get away from her mother. |
| Curley's wife yells at Lennie | To let go of her hair. |
| Lennie accidently killed | Curley's wife |
| Who finds Curley's wife dead? | Candy |
| George ask Candy to | give him time to get away before telling on Lennie |
| Carlson thinks his luger | has been stolen |
| Luger | A german semiautomatic pistol |
| Where does Lennie hide | The campsite near the river. |
| Lennie is upset and "talks to" | Aunt Clara |
| Rabbit | Imagined by Lennie and he talked to him. |
| George tells Lennie as he is shooting him. | About the little place they are going to get. |