Round 9: Tossup 17

A scene in this novella describes how “a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment” after the death of a character whose body “flopped like a fish.” (-5[1])A character in this novella threatens to get a man with a crooked back “strung up on a tree,” and later bemoans how she married a man who wears a Vaseline-filled glove. (10[1])In this novella, (10[1])Carlson shoots the handyman Candy’s aging dog. (10[1])In this novella, a character (10[1])who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” is killed to stop him from being lynched for strangling Curley’s wife. (10[1])For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting Lennie? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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