Of Mice and Men, Ch 6

REMINDER: Draft 2 of the Historical Research Essay is due to turnitin.com by 11:59:59pm TONIGHT. Make the changes suggested by your peer editor. Double check to be certain you've included all quotations and source citations correctly. Attach your Works Cited as the final page of your paper.

Read Chapter 6 for Of Mice and Men. Answer the following questions:

Study Questions

Chapter 5

1. Chapter five begins with an accident. Why did it happen and what consequence does Lennie fear?

2. How does Curley's wife react when Lennie says he's not supposed to talk to her?

3. What, according to Curley's wife, will keep people from knowing that they are speaking alone in the barn?

4. What feelings does she reveal in their conversation? What situations from her past does she reveal?

5. Do you feel more sympathetic towards her character after this conversation? How does she fit into the broader themes of the novel?

6. What does she invite Lennie to do that proves to be a serious mistake?

7. What terrible event occurs in Chapter Five and how was it foreshadowed?

8. Why does George leave and then return to the barn with the others?

 Chapter 6

1. What does Lennie remember that George has told him?

2. Lennie has two unusual hallucinations. Describe them.

3. How do the characters in Lennie's dream treat him? What emotional needs do these hallucinations fulfill?

4. How does George try to make Lennie's free from guilt and pain?

5. Why does George make the choice he does?

6. Earlier in the novel, what event(s) foreshadowed George's final resolution of the novel's conflict?

7. Why did George lie to the others about what really happened?

8. Do you think this story has a positive or negative ending? Why?

When finished, begin the film.