How Does Steinbeck Show Carelessness In Of Mice And Men

The Guilty One The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck during the Great Depression was an important lesson to learn from. A character who calls himself Lennie Small was a careless, unforgiving man. He has a parental friend George who took him from his Aunt Clare, from then Lennie who spout his whole life with George. Lennie is the one who gets both of them in trouble by his carelessness and George gets him out of it. Therefore, based on his actions, appearance, dialogue, and other characters’ perception of him. Lennie clearly possesses the trait of carelessness. Lennie possess the trait of carelessness because he killed a person. He murdered Curley’s beloved wife with his bare hands. In Steinbeck's views“ He shook her and her body flopped like a fish, and then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck”( Steinbeck 89). He was careless of what he was doing because all he wanted was to tend rabbits. He had the knowledge that he was strong and bigger than Curley’s wife, but he did not care about human life, just about rabbits. Lennie should’ve understood and thought of another way to tell a human to be quiet without taking that person’s life.

He was given mice by his Aunt Clare, and he would kill them because if they bit his finger. “ That was your own Aunt Clare. An’ she stopped givin’ ‘em to you. You always killed ‘em. Lennie looked sadly up at him. “ They was so little.” I’d pet ‘em and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I’d pinch their heads a little and they was dead because they were so little.”( Steinback 8-9). He will kill anything that will hurt him or frighten him. Even though it was dead, he would keep it because he likes the soft fabrics or soft things. He did not think of the future such as thinking of keeping it alive ,but he reacts too quickly and without