Part 5/6

             To bring "Of Mice and Men" to an end we experience part 6, where Lennie has a period of hallucination. The cause of this event was when Lennie had accidentally killed Curley's wife, which had stirred up anxiety causing him to flee to the Salinas River. Leading into the beginning of his hallucination process where Lennie went head to head with a character who meant everything to him, Aunt Clara. "She stood in front of Lennie and frowned disapprovingly at him" (Steinbeck 101), her reaction towards him stood out to me because prior in the novel we heard of Aunt Clara as a caring woman towards everyone, so when she gave him a look of disapproval in his hallucination Lennie realizes he messed it up and that he had already lost someone's respect for him. "And when she spoke, it was in Lennie's voice" (Steinbeck 101) as Aunt Clara kept adding on misery her voice became a voice in his head, which kept drilling all the ways George could be happy and free without Lennie holding him back. As she then faded away,  "there came a gigantic rabbit" (Steinbeck 101), I think that Steinbeck added in the rabbit because throughout the story Lennie's mind was always set on tending rabbits, so when one appeared "and spoke in Lennie's voice too" (Steinbeck 102) he felt the pressure build up more and more on his shoulders. When "'the rabbit repeated softly over and over, he gonna leave ya all alone'" (Steinbeck 102) Lennie was put in a place of arguing with himself and how George was and wasn't gonna leave him, "'He won't, Lennie cried frantically. 'He won't do nothing like that'" (Steinbeck 102) but since Lennie contained a young gullible mind he believed the rabbit's word and questioned himself as he was discussing with the rabbit. Throughout the entire scene of Lennie's hallucination it was resembled as battling himself, because this event was like the weed scene where he interacted with a young lady and his action towards her made a big impact on himself and George causing them to flee and start over. Which I think was very similar to Lennie and Curley's wife because he is now running around with pressure and a twisted mind set that will sooner or later lead to a bigger consequence of his wrong doing.