In John Steinbeck’s novella,”Of Mice and Men” george gave up on their dreams of owning a ranch because he couldn’t think of owning the ranch without Lennie, because of these three reasons three reasons: George know lennie killed Curley’s Wife; George had known Lennie was on the run--George knew that he had to be the one to kill lennie. In George knowing that Lennie had killed Curley’s Wife George tells Candy about who killed her by saying Candy said,“what done it?” George looked at him coldly. “Ain’t you got any idear”(94). This helps prove my thesis because George had knew that Lennie had killed her because he was the only one that wasn’t there and he was the only one big enough to kill her like that so he knew that the ranch was over with.