Shaan Ansari- Blog number five

In part five in OMAM, Lennie "Does a bad thing" when he accidently kills Curley's wife. Lennie is alone in the barn after accidently killing his puppy, while the other men were outside playing horseshoes. A little later, Curley's wife came in and tried to talk to Lennie. However, Lennie was able to remember that George didn't want him to talk to Curley's wife because she might get him in trouble. Curley's wife, however, was able to persuade Lennie that it was OK to talk to her and Lennie believed her.  After talking for a while, Lennie mentions about how he likes to pet soft things and Curley's wife says, "'Why when I'm doing my hair sometimes, I jus' set an' stroke it cus' it's so soft'... 'Here-feel right here'. 'Feel aroun' right here an' feel how soft it is."' Lennie then starts to stroke it and after a few runs through, Curley's wife tells him to stop and Lennie panicked and grabbed on to her hair. She started to scream and Lennie covered her mouth with his hand. She squirms and tries to break free and Lennie stands up with her in a choke hold and in all the chaos, he snaps her neck, therefore killing her. I think this symbolizes the idea of the weak preying on the weaker. Lennie didn't mean to kill her, but since he is so inept, his strength worked against him. I also feel like when Curley finds out what happens, he will prey on Lennie by literally killing him.