What are the important quotes Of Mice and Men in chapter 1?Give quotes on chapter 1 and explain please....

As this question is rather nebulous, consideration will be
given to passages that relate to characterization and to foreshadowing since these two
literary techniques are prominent in this
chapter.

Characterization

George
Milton is described as

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The first man was small and quick, dark of face,
with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.  Every part of him was defined:  small,
strong hand, slender arms, a thin and bony
nose.

Curiously, George
Milton, whose name suggests the brillant 17th century poet who wrote the epic poem
Paradise Lost, is a small man, yet the adjective strong
is applied to him twice.  His senses are keen and his restless eyes suggest
intelligence.  On the other hand, the second man, who follows along dragging his feet as
a bear would and described in zoomorphic tones, lunges for the water and immerses
himself entirely in the pond as would an animal:

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Behind him [George], walked his opposite, a huge
man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, with wide sloping shoulder; and he walked
heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.  His arms did not
swing at his sides, but hung
loosely. 

Rather than being
strong in characterisctics, Lennie drags his feet and lunges for the water,  drinking
with "long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse."  It is apparent that George is
the brains of the two men, and Lennie the
brawn.

Foreshadowing

That
problems may arise is suggested by the allusions that George makes to the town Weed,
from which George and Lennie suddenly fled; in addition, George
bemoans,

"I
could get along so easy and so nice if I didn't have you on my tail. I could live so
easy and maybe have a
girl."

The idyllic scene of
the clearing prompts Lennie to ask George to recite their "dream of owning a farm of
their own" for him. While he does so, George also cautions
Lennie,

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"...Well, look, Lennie--if you jus' happen to get
in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here and ' hide in the
brush."

And it is to this
Eden-like garden of flora and fauna that Lennie runs at the end of the
novella.

Finally, as the men bed
down,

The red
light dimmed on the coals.  Up the hill from the river a coyote yammered, and a dog
answered from the other side of the stream.  The sycamore leaves whispered in a little
night
breeze.

Certainly, these last
lines of Chapter 1 suggest ominous occurrences as the red can symbolize blood and the
coyote is a predatory animal.