Lennie-chapter 5

In chapter five Lennie's behavour changes.  He goes from being inocent to quite violent, for example when everyone at the ranch was out lennie was in the barn petting the pup's. george had previously told Lennie not to pet these puppies because he could hurt them, however lennie ignored this rule, this shows that lennie can not really fully constontrate on one thing and you usually find this trate in young children.  so as lennie was petting these puppies one of them had died, lennies reaction to this was, "Why do you gotta get killed? You ain't so little as mice. I didn't bounce you hard." this shows that lennie didnt really understand why this puppie was dead, but he knew he had done something wrong and there  would be consequences.  this quote shows that lennie is mentaly disabled because he doesnt feel any pitty on this dead puppie and he didnt understand why this puppie had died even though he had bounced it.  After that lennie said " “Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits. Now he won’t let me.”  this represents that lennie doesnt feel any sympathy towards this dead puppie because all he is thinking about is tending rabits, that implies that he is quite simplim minded because a typical person would not be thinking about things like that in the future if they have just murded a puppie.
Another scenario that shows trates of Lennie's personality was when he killed curlys wife.  Lennie went from being calm to very paniced.  firstly curly was stoking curlys wifes hair then the next minute he has grabbing her neck once he started to attack her he was unable to stop.  steinbeck shows this panic well because if you are in that situation your mind gets very confused and you are unable to know whats right and whats wrong, this is even harder for Lennie becaause he is mentaly disabled this is why he killed Lennies wife.  Lennie came across quite visious becaus he was handeling curlys wife like a rag doll, this quote shows this- "she flopped to the floor like a fish" this shows that lennie didnt realy care if she was dead or not he was just thinking about the concequences for himself, you could see this as selfishness but you could feel sorry for lennie because he is scared and doesnt fully understand the situation of life and death.