Vocabulary
Definition: Supported by attachment from above
Suspended
Lennie does this when he's alone.
Talks to himself
Lennie hallucinates these two things.
His Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit.
This character is the most outcast among all of them, even having to bunk separately from the others.
Crooks
This is something Lennie does to make George feel pity on him, or in other words, to make him feel guilty.
Threaten to run off on his own and live in a cave.
Definition: marked with spots or smears of color
mottled
This is the reason why Lennie doesn't want George to find out about his dog.
Because he won't get to tend rabbits
The location that the chapter takes place in, also appearing in chapter 1.
In the brush, in a clearing by a stream.
This character's isolation causes problems for all of the men on the ranch.
Curley's Wife
This is the first "mercy killing" in the novel, and foreshadows what happens in the last chapter.
Carlson shoots Candy's dog.
Definition: In a way that shows anger or a wish to fight
belligerently
This person finds Curley's wife's body first after Lennie leaves.
Candy
These two characters fail to understand why George is so upset at the end of the novel.
Carlson and Curley
This is what George tells Lennie about why they're different from other migrant workers like them.
Because they have each other.
This is what George does to ease Lennie's mind in his final moments.
Describes their dream of owning their own farm.
Synonym: importance
emphasis
This foreshadows the death of Curley's Wife.
-What happened in Weed
-What Lennie's habits with mice are
-What happens to Lennie's puppy
This is what the rabbit says to Lennie.
That George is sick of him, that George is going to beat him and leave him, that he is worthless
This character's isolation is a result of their anger problems.
Curley
These two characters are shown mercy by their boss for disabling injuries they suffered on the ranch.
Candy and Crooks
Synonym: confused
bewildered
This is the reason that Curley's Wife approaches Lennie.
Because she thinks he is slow and vulnerable/easy to manipulate
Lennie's vision of his Aunt Clara shows us this about his mindset.
He feels guilty about what he has done.
This character, out of all the others, does not seem to let loneliness affect him.
Slim
This character seems to want mercy, but never receives it from anyone.
Curley's Wife