Sometimes in life you have to get rid of the people who bring you down in order to succeed and go further in life. For instance, I use to have this friend and she would always talk me into doing bad things. So, one day I just stopped hanging with her. In the book George had to do something about Lennie because Lennie was getting into trouble and was going to far. In Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck, George made the right decision because Lennie lacks control, is violent and doesn’t know his own strength, and George didn’t really have a choice.
All throughout the book Lennie was violent towards other objects. In the book Lennie and Curley got into a fight because Curley though that Lennie was laughing at him. The author wrote “Curley sat on the floor, looking in wonder at his crushed hand,” (Steinbeck,64). This was the
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Before the boys get to their new job they were coming from their old job were Lennie got in trouble. George says “If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won’t get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we’re set. Ya got that?” (Steinbeck, 64). If Lennie would have mention anything about what happened in Weed then they could have lost their jobs then and their. In the beginning throughout the book till the end it shows how Lennie lacks control. Lennie saw this girls dress and wanted to feel the fabric of it. George wasn’t with him at the time so he didn’t know what Lennie was about to do. As George was telling the story he said “So he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on cause that’s the only thing he could think to do,” (Steinbeck, 41). Lennie gets into trouble a lot because he doesn’t let go if the things he touches if they frighten him in the process, he kinda just freezes up. A lot of the time in the book George has to come right behind Lennie and clean up the mess that Lennie