“There never is a good time for tough decisions,” says Jairam Ramesh. Life always tries to find a way to present complex decisions, with no straightforward way around it. It is one hard choice or another. An example of tough decisions is in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. In this story, George Milton makes the decision to kill his best friend, Lennie Small. Although some people believe this is murder, it is euthanasia. Some people would believe that George murdered Lennie Small. These same people would say that this was retribution for Lennie killing Curly’s wife. However, George never cared about Curly’s wife. In fact, the first time George interacted with her, he spoke to her rudely and kept his responses brief, which meant he wanted her to leave because he thought she would cause …show more content…
George also knows that Lennie did not mean to kill Curly’s wife; on page 95, George states that he never intended to kill her, and that nothing bad Lennie ever did was on purpose. On the other hand, people who believe in its murder would say that George believes Lennie would have just kept killing animals and may have gone on to kill more people later. So, George decided to murder him, before he got to anyone else. Then again, George still knows that Lennie never meant any of it. George and Lennie have also been friends for a very long time, and throughout all this time, George has looked out for and cared about Lennie, and George wouldn’t kill Lennie for all the killing he has done, when George has done nothing but try to protect Lennie for most of the time they have been traveling together. Still, someone would argue that George had a motive, the motive being that George had talked about how good his life would be without Lennie around. If this were true, then