1. Mini Lesson # 8 The Barn Incident Pages 84 - 98
Lennie’s Fault
Curley’s Wife’s Fault
Do Now: Give 3 reasons as to why what happened in the barn is...

2. A brief recount of the facts...
Carlson is missing his Luger (the gun he used to shoot Candy’s dog).
Lennie gets mad at the dead puppy, because it wasn’t big enough to pet.
He’s afraid of the consequences he will have to suffer from George.

3. Watch his friend be murdered by Curley’s lynch mob
Scapegoats!
Candy is furious with the dead woman because he sees her as the destructor of their dream.
George understands that he has a choice…
Watch his friend be murdered by Curley’s lynch mob
Do the deed himself.

4. The Beauty of Women
All the marks of her unhappy life have disappeared.
Her face is now, “pretty and simple”… “sweet and young”
to overcome her malignant nature
And restore her lost innocence
Is through DEATH
It is disturbing that Steinbeck seems to subtly imply that the only way for a woman…

5. Homework # 11 George’s Insightful Response
With the realization of death comes the disappearance of the good life in the farm.
Why is George’s response the most insightful and realistic response in the novel?
“There is no room for dreaming in such, difficult and inhospitable world.”