Chapter 3 Overview.

This scene opens up with Slim and George entering the bunk house. Slim had just given Lennie one of the puppies in his dog's litter because Lennie wanted something to pet, after all he was infatuated with soft things. They ended up talking about Lennie afterwards. Slim admit that George was right about Lennie, that he wasn't bright at all but he was an amazing worker.Then their conversation drifted into the topic of George & Lennie travelling together. Slip found it surprising because at the time, men usually travelled alone, worked for a month, collected their pay, then left. They never gave a damn about anybody else. George then tells Slim a little about George's history with Lennie. What happened in Weed was brought up so George told hm the whole story. Slim reassured himself that Lennie wasn't a mean guy after all, but much like a child instead. When Lennie enters the bunk house hiding his new puppy, it confirmed what Slim thought and what George had said about Lennie.

Candy and Carlson then enter the bunk house. Candy's dog then entered and Carlson was agitated by it, as always.Carlson offered Candy the option of killing the dog, because it was so old. This made Candy upset because he had the dog since it was a puppy, but he knew that there was no fighting this argument. Candy decided that killing the dog was best, but he didn't have the will to shoot it so Candy let Carlson do the dirty work. Then the shot rang off in the distance, and Candy had lost a good friend.

Later on, Curley burst into the room asking rudely if anyone had seen his wife. He also though Slim was with her so he boomed off into the barn looking for him. George knew that something bad was going to happen so he told Lennie to stay away from Slim at all costs. When Curley later came back, he ended up picking a fight with Lennie when he mistook Lennie's chuckling for teasing. Eventually George saw enough so he told Lennie to get him, so Lennie crushed Curley's fist. To avoid a bigger problem, the cover up for the story was that Curley got his hand caught in a machine.