Parts 5 and 6

In the beginning of chapter 5 Lennie is in the barn with a dead pup talking about how, "George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits, if he fin's out you got killed."(85) As Lennie was talking, "Curley's wife came around the end of the last stall. She came very quietly, so that Lennie didn't see her."(86) When Curley's wife asked him, "What you got there sonny boy,"(86) Lennie replied, " George says I ain't to have nothing to do with you- talk to you or nothing."(86) Lennie is obeying George's command to not look at or talk to Curley's wife. George strongly feels that Curley's wife is nothing but trouble. While Curley's wife continues to try and make conversation Lennie is stressing that, "I ain't supposed to talk to you or nothing."(86) Curley's wife then opened up about how she, "Get awful lonely,"(86) and how she, "Can't talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad."(87) This shows that she's always in the house because she really has no choice but to listen to Curley talk about stuff repeatedly. She flirts with the other guys when Curley's not around for new conversation. I personally don't think it's okay to "flirt" with other men on the ranch as a married woman, but I feel a little sorry for her and think that maybe just talking to others is a good thing. After all she does have to sit in a house day after day listening to Curley's stories, so pretending to look for Curley is a way out of listening to that when she can. Even though Lennie told her numerous times he wasn't allowed to talk to her she didn't care and went on with a story about how she, " Ain't used to livin' like this," she, "Coulda made somethin' of myself."(88) As usual Lennie was thinking about how him, George, Candy are, "gonna have a little place- an' tend rabbits."(88) Lennie isn't paying much attention to Curley's wife story kind of like how he didn't pay much attention to Crooks story when he was told one. All Lennie was thinking about during most of both stories was how he was going to tend the rabbits like George promised he would. When Curley's wife found out that Lennie liked to stroke soft hair and fabric she let him, "Feel right aroun' there an' see how soft it is."(90) Lennie loved it so much that his, " Fingers closed on her hair and hung on."(91) "Let go," she cried. (91)"You let go!" (91)"Lennie was in a panic."(91) Lennie was in a panic and wouldn't let go just like in the incident he had with Curley. Lennie panicked and wouldn't let go off Curley's hand and squeezed it to death. And like the incident where Lennie like a girls dress but wouldn't let go because he was scared. Curley's wife was yelling and trying to shake free but Lennie held on to her hair, mouth, nose, and begged, " Oh please don't do that, George'll be mad."(91) " George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits." Lennie once again was mostly concerned about tending the rabbits. If George heard her screaming and saw Lennie, he would've said he couldn't tend the rabbits anymore. Eventually Lennie got upset and shook her so much that, "Lennie had broken her neck."(91) Lennie had killed Curley's wife. That was the motivation behind Curley wanting him dead. Also note that he was still upset about his hand! When Lennie ran south he stole Candy's luger. As Lennie was sitting by the lake his aunt Clara and a rabbit appeared. Aunt Clara talked about how George is a nice caring guy and has been watching him while he's done all these bad things. The rabbit tells Lennie that George is going to hit him with sticks and things like that and then he's gonna go away. When George finally came he convinced Lennie to turn his head while he talked about the dream and gradually pulled the gun closer to him. He picked the gun up and made sure, "Lennie turned his head." After Lennie's last three sentences, George,"Pulled the trigger." George shot him in the back of the head. I think George killing Lennie was the best decision for the guys. They all agreed on killing Lennie for killing Curley's wife but George was the one who took care of Lennie so I think it's only fair that if someone kills him it should be George. Curley already didn't like Lennie so his death would have been a slow and painful death. George had to kill Lennie at that moment because if he would have let Lennie run away if one day the guys came across Lennie they would definitely shoot Lennie. George made a right yet very sad decision.