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1. It is a Sunday afternoon in the beginning of chapter 5.

2. Lennie is in the barn all by himself looking at his dead puppy while the others are all playing horseshoes.

3. Lennie thinks that he might not get to tend the rabbits because it is his fault that his puppy is dead, and he thinks George will be mad because of it.

4. Curley's wife visits Lennie in the barn.

5. According to Curley's wife, no one is going to leave the horseshoe tournament because "they got four dollars bet in that tenement" (Steinbeck 95-96)

6. According to Curley's wife, she didn't get into show business because her mom wouldn't let her because at the time she was only fifteen. She thought that her mom stole the letter that she was supposed to get from some guy that was going to put her in movies.

7. We can infer that Curley's wife married Curley to get away from her mother.

8. Lennie plans to throw away the pup so George would never know so he could avoid getting in trouble.

9. Lennie lost a big piece of velvet that his Aunt Clara bought him, and he wishes he had it now.

10. Curley's wife yells at Lennie to let go of her hair that he is touching, but he doesn't.

11. Lennie tries to make Curley's wife stop screaming by closing his hand over her mouth and nose and shook her. This caused her death.

12. Candy finds Curley's wife

13.Candy hopefully asks George "You an' me can get that little place, can't we, George?" (Steinbeck 103).

14. George asks Candy to make it seem as if George did not know anything about Curley's wife being dead, he asked Candy to come in a little after him and make it sound like George has not seen her.

15. Carlson thinks that Lennie took her Luger.

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16. Lennie was hiding down by the Salinas river.

17. Lennie has his first imaginary conversation with his Aunt Clara.

18. Lennie has his second imaginary conversation with a gigantic talking rabbit.

19. George tells Lennie the story about the little house that they are going to get with the animals, alfalfa and about the rabbits.

20. While George is telling Lennie the story and making him think everything is good and that he isn't mad, he shoots him in the head with Carlson's Luger.

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21. In my opinion, George was justified to shoot Lennie. Lennie received much better treatment in his death than if the other guys of the ranch would have. George told him a nice story; all about the little house and rabbits. He said to Lennie, "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain't now. That's the think I want ya to know." (Steinbeck 117). George tries to make Lennie believe that everything is going to be okay and that they are going to live a good happy life. Then, George lifts up the Luger, shakily, and shoots him right in the head so he may only suffer a kick death. On the other hand, if Curley were to get to him first Lennie's death would not have happened so pleasantly. Curley had said in chapter 5 "I'm goin...I'm gonna shoot the guts out that big bastard myself,"(Steinbeck 107). That showed that Curley was going to let Lennie suffer, that he was going to show no mercy for Lennie had crippled his hand and now killed his wife. The manner in which George went out about killing Lennie was much more justified than what Curley was going to do, because deep down Lennie did not mean any harm to Curley's wife.