Round 10: 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.” A character in this novella threatens to get a man with a crooked (-5[1])back “strung up on a tree,” and later bemoans how she married a man who wears a Vaseline-filled glove. (10[3])In this (10[1])novella, (10[2])Carlson shoots the handyman Candy’s aging dog. (10[2])In this novella, a character who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” is (10[1])killed to stop him from being lynched for strangling Curley’s (10[1])wife. For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting (10[1])Lennie? ■END■ (10[1])

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