Although the plot has the same ending in both the book and the movies, the actual ending moments of each pieces of them are different in several ways. The movie ends with a flashback but the book ends with a dialogue and a line. Of Mice and Men ends with the death of Lennie by his best friend, George. The author built up towards it with several things lennie and george did for a tragic end since the beginning of the story.Like Lennie's trouble in Weed, his petting of the dead mouse, and his killing of the puppy have kind of shown flashes of his killing of Curley's wife.The flashback shows that George didn't kill Lennie because he wanted to. He shot him out of love and for what was better for the both of them. He wanted to be the one to do it instead of …show more content…
He wasn't happy, but he wasn't as mad as a normal person would be though. George was sad, but he didn't shoot him out of his sadness either it seems. The flashback shows strong, feelings and emotions. George killed Lennie, and then we watch them walking away as friends at a point before the death of lennie, when they were both happy. It reminds us that they were best friends, and one just shot the other in the back of the head. The feeling doesn't match the end of the book. They are both sad endings, but the movie has a different feeling of showing the sad feeling. The book has a good build up and then a type of climax when he shoots him. But in the movie, it was just kind of shocking, and it was a quick change from about what was going to happen, to sadness and regret. The movie also had just George and Lennie at the end. No one else showed up with them. If Carlson, Curley, Slim, and the others. would have showed up, it would have felt different and gave it a different vibe. It was just them two, and I think that that's how it should be. The line of dialogue at the end of the book, ends the book with more meaning than most people might think. The line is,"Now what the hell ya suppose