How Does George Kill The Boss's Wife

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OMAM Draft
By: Aidan Workman
Class: Honors English 1, 5th hour, Mr.Joyce

Losing a loved one could be one of the saddest things you could go through, you won’t ever hear their voice again and you won’t make any more memories with them again, you only have memories to look back on. Of Mice and Men is a story by John Steinbeck about George, the protagonist, taking care of Lennie, a mentally disabled man, after Lennie’s aunt dies. They go to a farm to work to earn money to move to their dream farm that they would own together. However, Lennie kills the boss’s son’s wife, and this is a problem because he killed someone close to one of the top people on the farm. George must kill Lennie before the others on the farm do. George suffers the most because he has to devote a lot of his life and almost all of his time to take care of Lennie and, after all the things George and Lennie went through, George had to kill Lennie himself. George suffers from losing both his time and his best friend. …show more content…

George talks about one of the times he had to help keep Lennie from getting in trouble; “I was jus’ a little bit off, and I heard all the yellin’, so I came running… I socked him over the head with a fence picket”(pg.41). Lennie and George had to run away from their old town because Lennie assaulted a girl, George was able to stop Lennie before he hurt the women and got in trouble. George taught Lennie not to talk to Curley's wife so something bad doesn’t happen to them; “George says I ain’t to have nothing to do with you…George says you’ll get us into a mess”(pg.86 & 88). This is another example of George helping Lennie not get into too much trouble. George knows that if something happens to Curley's wife, Curley will kill that person and kick them off the