Mood
For me there are very few moods felt while reading, pure indifference, slight sadness, and hatred. When feeling indifferent about the book, that's when I was trying to read the fastest to try to get to a part of the book that would made me feel a twinge of sadness, or even chuckle at something.
Sadness would overcome me when someone would starting picking on Lennie, because, truly, did the man really need to be picked on? He may be different, but that shouldn't give another character rhyme and reason to pick on him about something he wants. Like when Crooks started questioning Lennie about whether or not George would come back for him, or the fact that Lennie believe George when he said that they were going to get a rabbit farm and live on the stead until they die.
The feeling of hatred seem only to be fueled by the fact that right as the news as Curley's wife was dead, his first reaction was to go out and search for Lennie and go kill him. I admit, that may have been his way of coping with that fact she was gone, but from we read, that marriage wasn't exactly the happiest, and that there was probably no love in it.
Sadness would overcome me when someone would starting picking on Lennie, because, truly, did the man really need to be picked on? He may be different, but that shouldn't give another character rhyme and reason to pick on him about something he wants. Like when Crooks started questioning Lennie about whether or not George would come back for him, or the fact that Lennie believe George when he said that they were going to get a rabbit farm and live on the stead until they die.
The feeling of hatred seem only to be fueled by the fact that right as the news as Curley's wife was dead, his first reaction was to go out and search for Lennie and go kill him. I admit, that may have been his way of coping with that fact she was gone, but from we read, that marriage wasn't exactly the happiest, and that there was probably no love in it.