Of Mice And Men Foreshadowing

I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. This is a quote from the book of mice and men by John Steinbeck. At the start of the book they show that Lennie can't control his strength by saying that he kills things he pets which also happens at the end of the story. This is just one way of mice and men use great foreshadowing to the point where you can predict the ending halfway through the book.

The death of the mice at the start predicts the death of Curley's wife and Lennie's dog. "I’d pet ’em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead because they were so little. STEINBECK 10. This quote shows that Lennie always had trouble keeping his hands away from stuff he thought was soft. We also see that Lennie had a hard time keeping his strength controlled, which resulted in him killing Curley's wife. Lennie's dog dying can also be attributed to this because of the way he kills it.

I ought to shot that dog myself, George. (61). On this page it shows Candy telling George that he regrets not killing his dog himself, which could be a reason that George shot Lennie himself. He also says that he shouldn't have let a stranger shoot his dog, I think this could have also been on George's mind. The last thing is that I think he would have wanted George to feel good, unlike Candy's dog who had to die to someone he didn't