Death In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Every single animal in the Earth including the human being has born, get old, health, sick and death in the life. Those are the processes that everyone must be experienced in life. Death is a part of the life and nobody can avoid it like all the TV series always has the final episode. In the novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, there are two deaths in the novel with many relatives to each other which are Candy's dog's death and Lennie's death. The death of Candy's dog has foreshadowed the death of Lennie. The death of both characters is tragic. This essay will argue how weak are these two characters in the society. Firstly, this will be seen how were the dog and the mentally disabled person were prejudiced in the society in the society.

The difference of the prejudice they got is Candy's dog got prejudiced because it is old and smell bad so most of the ranch workers don't like it. “ He stopped and sniffed the air, and still sniffing, looked down at the old dog. "God awmighty, that dog stinks. Get him outa here, Candy! I don't know nothing that stinks as bad as an old dog. You gotta get him out."” （Page 21). And the reason why Lennie got prejudiced is Lennie is a mentally disabled person and he cannot think like normal people so the ranch workers and even George treated him as a “crazy bastard”. “"That ranch we're goin' to is right down there about a quarter mile.We're gonna go in an' see the boss. Now, look- I'll give him the work tickets, but you ain't gonna say a word. You jus' stand there and don't say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won't get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set. Ya got that?"” (Page

The first Similarity of their relief is, they can both avoid the pain they would get in the world. Because if Candy's dog keeps alive, it probably will be suffering from the disease, and if Lennie keeps alive, he will be abused by Curley painfully and die in a cruel way because Lennie killed his wife. And the second Similarity is, Candy's dog and Lennie both died because the gunshot to the head and they wouldn't feel any pain and even don't know what's going on and they died immediately. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.”(Page