From Of Mice and Men What is most closely the meaning of the phrase "live off the fatta the lan’" in the passage below (paragraphs 9-10)? "‘O. K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and—‘" ‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’," Lennie shouted. ‘An’ have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that, George.’" Question 19 options: a) To live without having to work b) To eat a lot of food c) To go on a diet d) To live for a long time

A. To live without having to work.

Explanation:

"An live off the fatta the lan" means they'll be living off of the things that the land (earth) produces. Thus, they would be supplied with all the things they needed by the farm, dependent upon themselves and their own hard work without working for any other person.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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