“She struggled violently under his hands. Her feet battered on the hay and she withered to be free; and from under Lennie’s hand came a muffled screaming” (Steinbeck 91). After the death of Curley’s wife it became clear to George that no matter what, Lennie was going to cause trouble whether he meant it or not, anywhere they were to go. George didn’t have any choice but to kill Lennie. From what we know of Lennie, he had assaulted the girl in the red dress, snapped the puppy’s neck, and finally killed Curley’s wife in a short period of time. What’s to stop him from doing something so drastic again? First of all, if Lennie had been ‘freed’ by George something else, possibly more horrible, could have happened in the future. Lennie is …show more content…
Mixing all of those three emotions creates an extremely unstable personality. He’s unpredictable. As we were reading the part of the book when Curley’s wife passed away, we were all shocked about what happened. No one thought that Lennie would kill Curley’s wife, even if it was just an accident. George and Lennie both came to the ranch for a fresh start, thinking that everything would be peaceful and they could get back on with their lives. They were wrong. Throughout what we learned about George and Lennie, George was basically Lennie’s caretaker. And with George being his caretaker what if something happened to George. Lennie would be alone and who knows what he would do. On the other side of things, if George and Lennie got that farm they had dreamed of, maybe Lennie wouldn’t hurt anyone else. They could live in peace, tending to their farm animals. Every bad thing Lennie had done happened when he was scared. The girl in the red dress, when Lennie was frightened he clenched on to her dress, and that even ended up scaring her. When Lennie killed the puppy Curley’s wife found out and that led her to her death. Lennie got scared, once again, and to keep her quite Lennie accidentally killed her, afraid of what she would say to