This week our group read from page seventy-six till the end.
In this section we saw so much more of Curley's wife. Curley's wife seems to be SO lonely that she will take attention from anyone. It seems that Lennie gets along with Curley's wife better than most other people [Maybe because the other guys at the farm are so intimidated by her husband]. What is extremely ironic though is that Lennie ends up being the one that kills her.
Throughout this whole book I've felt sorry for Lennie. His mental disability holds him back so much, but he doesn't even realize it. As I've said before in my previous blogs, Lennie is much like a young child. Lennie's main problem appears to be that he is unaware of his own strength [pg.90 is where he really starts to get into trouble]. One thing that I find intriguing about Lennie is that he is amused, almost obsessed with touching soft things.
The ending of the book really surprised me. I wasn't so surprised that Lennie killed his puppy, or even Curley's wife, but the fact that George killed Lennie... wow. I would not have predicted that.
I also didn't expect George to kill Lennie either. I agree with you when you said Lennie doesn't know his own strength. It gets him into trouble and he even gets killed because he doesn't know his strength, so I also feel bad for him.
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