Chapter 5 Notes

Question: At the beginning of chapter 5 in "Of Mice and Men," Lennie comes to find out that his puppy has died and becomes furious. How did the puppy die? Did it die from a sickness, disease, or of another natural cause? Later on in the section, Curley's wife has a little chat with Lennie, stating that she still married Curley even if she disliked him. If she hates Curley so much, then why did she marry him in the first place? Did her mother force her to do that or did she think that she could earn so much in life with a man by her side?

Prediction: Since Lennie accidentally killed Curley's wife, making Curley want to kill Lennie for that, I have a felling that Curley will never find Lennie since he is hiding near the bush in the deep woods that George instructed him to go to if anything would go wrong during their time at Tyler ranch. Also, since George is Lennie's closest guardian, I think that he might just do something drastic to get Curley and the angry mob off Lennie's back and preventing anything bad and/or serious from happening.

Relate: With all of this suspense building up in the book from Lennie killing Curley's wife to Curley now beginning to look for Lennie to get revenge, I am getting pretty excited at this point in the book. When you're this far into the book, the reader should know by know that Lennie is very practical since he has a mental disability, so something can get crazy really quick with him around. With this in mind, once Curley's wife walks into Lennie bunk right after he pets his dead puppy, you can tell that Steinbeck makes the readers think that something tragic is going to happen.