Of mice and men chapter 5 (CW death)

Of mice and men chapter 5 (CW death)

1. Killed after saying dream

   • Lennie can't understand significance
   • Foreshadows dreams won't come true

2. Before death she tells of dream

   • Doesn't like Curley
     • Reminder - Curley's Vaseline glove
       • Visual reminder of power of wife
   • Met man told her she could be in Hollywood movie
     • She wants attention
     • Thinks mother stole letters
       • Naïve, doesn't consider man didn't send them
   • puppy was just a mutt; 'whole country is fulla mutts'
     • Context - migrant workers - easily replaceable

3. Before her death Lennie kills puppy

   • Foreshadows her death

4. Links to Weed (she panics, Lennie holds on

5. 'her face was sweet and young'

   • Innocent, vulnerable, young
   • Victim of environment (Was cruel because of her environment)

6. Curley reacts with anger

7. Description of death

   • Lennie covers her up (like puppy)
   • 'eyes wild with terror'
     • Was scared
   • 'flopped like a fish'
     • Context - women - easily discarded, disrecpectful
     • Sudden and shocking
   • Shepherd dog 'whimpered and cringed to the packing box'
     • Rejected in death

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