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 (10[1])novella threatens to get a man with a crooked back “strung up on a tree,” (10[1])and later bemoans how she married a man who wears (10[1])a Vaseline-filled glove. (10[1]-5[1])In this novella, Carlson (10[1])shoots (10[1])the handyman Candy’s aging dog. In this novella, a character who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” is killed to stop him from being (10[1])lynched for strangling Curley’s wife. For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting Lennie? ■END■ (0[1])

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