Section 5+6

Question 0

Significance of CW at beginning of barn chapter?

Answer 0

Before now she seemed to be a fiend

Now she shows her character by confessing to her unhappiness and dreams (real character depth)

Question 1

Lennie holding dead puppie in barn parallel to?

Answer 1

Holding deadmou5e at beginning of book

Question 2

After CW’s death, what does Steinbeck suggest she has regained?

Answer 2

Her innocence as she is no longer the fiend he describes her to be

Question 3

What does George realise and why?

Answer 3

He must kill Lennie, because better he do it than a cruel angry mob

Question 4

Similarities and differences between opening setting and ending one

Answer 4

Everything the same except , a large heron bending to snatch an unsuspecting snake out of the water (death comes surely quickly and to the unaware)when Lennie appears ,its obvious what’ll follow

Question 5

George describing the dream for the last time is

Answer 5

Surrender of his dreams

Question 6

What does George realise about himself as he’s about to kill Lennie

Answer 6

He is exactly the kind of man he tried not to be, a typical itinerant worker. Due to Lennie being the on,y thing that made him different

Question 7

Why does slim console George after Lennie’s death

Answer 7

He’s the wisest and the only one who understands loss

Question 8

Why is Carlson confused about George’s grief to Lennie’s death

Answer 8

Ignorance as opposed to heartlessness, due to the fact that he doesn’t understand the bond between friends and to mourn the loss of it