Character Analysis Of Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

When do you know to decide to take the life of someone you genuinely love, but know is better off?No suffering, no trouble, and no pain.Would you feel guilty, or regretful, even though you knew it was the right thing to do? A man named George in John Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men had these questions swimming in his head.In the novel, George’s mentally challenged freind, Lennie, makes a fatal mistake accidentally killing their bosses daughter in law.George must choose between taking Lennie to jail and most likely be mistreated by other inmates, let the other guys kill him and it may be slow and painful or taking Lennies life himself, so it will be quick and painless.In the end George takes the fastest, safest, way in killing his freind himself due to Lennie not having great memory, always causing trouble, and killed Curley’s wife.

You can’t remember nothing that happens, but you remember ever’ word i say” (steinbeck 103). Lennie is mentally handicapped,but back then they didn’t truly understand what that meant.With the mind of a 5 year old child, Lennie is maybe in his mid thirties and gets distracted very easily.For him, he loves anything soft and likes to touch and feel silk like materials.Because he has his problems, he doesn’t understand or remembers to keep his hands to himself, something every young child is told.When told to do something Lennie forgets, and gets distracted.For example, George told Lennie not to hold that puppy to much because it’s young and can die.Lennie didn’t listen, he kept messing with the nice soft fur, this leading to the puppy's