Lennie's Failure In Of Mice And Men

Many people have been in Lennie and George’s position when it comes to tough situations just like when George is telling Slim about a situation, “ I was jus’ a little bit off, and I heard all the yellin’, so I comes running, an’ by that time Lennie’s so scared all he can think to do is jus’ hold on”(41) . George Milton and Lennie Smalls were friends that worked together. George was more of a babysitter for Lennie because he couldn’t do a lot of things on his own. Lennie ends up scaring a girl and they have to move to a different work ranch because of his mistakes.Then later on in the book Lennie kills the boss’s son,Curley,wife because he was touching er hair and she started to freak out, like what happened in Weed, and broke her neck. Lennie and George best portray the inevitability of failure in, Of Mice and Men. In John Steinbeck’s Novella, Of Mice And Men, George and Lennie could relate to many people in

George warned Lennie not to mess with Curley because he was the boss’s son, and they could get fired. When Curley came storming in the bunk house after Slim he looked at Lennie when he started swinging, and Lennie said, “ Make ‘um stop George. Wait a minute he yelled, Get ‘im Lennie!” (63). In the heat of the moment George couldn’t stand to see Lennie getting beat up, so he told Lennie to get him. By not swinging at first Lennie was listening to George, not to get into any trouble, so he could make George happy, and they could keep the job. As soon as Curley came into the bunkhouse trouble started, “Curley’s fist was swinging when Lennie reached for it, the next minute Curley was flopping like a fish” (63). Lennie was taking a risk because they could get fired, but at the same point he was following what George told him to do. After Lennie hit Curley they told Curley not to tell, and surprisingly he didn’t tell his dad; therefore, they stayed and worked on the