Of mice and men chapter 5 (CW death)

Killed after saying dream
1. Lennie can't understand significance
2. Foreshadows dreams won't come true
Before death she tells of dream
1. Doesn't like Curley
  1. Reminder - Curley's Vaseline glove
    1. Visual reminder of power of wife
2. Met man told her she could be in Hollywood movie
  1. She wants attention
  2. Thinks mother stole letters
    1. Naïve, doesn't consider man didn't send them
3. puppy was just a mutt; 'whole country is fulla mutts'
  1. Context - migrant workers - easily replaceable
Before her death Lennie kills puppy
1. Foreshadows her death
Links to Weed (she panics, Lennie holds on
'her face was sweet and young'
1. Innocent, vulnerable, young
2. Victim of environment (Was cruel because of her environment)
Curley reacts with anger
Description of death
1. Lennie covers her up (like puppy)
2. 'eyes wild with terror'
  1. Was scared
3. 'flopped like a fish'
  1. Context - women - easily discarded, disrecpectful
  2. Sudden and shocking
4. Shepherd dog 'whimpered and cringed to the packing box'
  1. Rejected in death

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