The story “Of Mice and Men” is written by John Steinbeck. It mainly focuses on Lennie and George. Lennie is a childlike migrant worker. Due to his mental illness, Lennie completely depends on George who is his friend and guardian. Their relationships with the people who surround them on the farm is the central conflict in the book. When Lennie killed Curley’s wife, the possibility of the dream farm was destroyed.
My favorite part of the story is how the author writes about the relationship between Lennie and George. They are more than just normal friends. George is the guardian of Lennie. He takes care of Lennie and helps him get out of the trouble Lennie causes. Lennie is childlike, so George always tells him the story of the dream farm,
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The author, Steinbeck, used the death of Candy’s dog to foreshadow Lennie being shot in the back of his head by George. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” (Steinbeck, 147). In the book, “Of Mice and Men”, both Candy’s dog and Lennie represent the weakest existence in the story. The dog is suffering from old age, and Lennie is weak mentally. George doesn’t want Lennie to suffer anymore, so he quickly shoots him in the back of the head. He thinks it is better to die peacefully rather than Lennie being lynched by Curley and the other ranch hands. George knows Lennie is already weak, and he cannot handle the stress in life, which is a result of the trouble he caused, so he decided to let him die without knowing just like Candy’s dog. Adding the right amount of excellent foreshadowing caused the story to become more interesting, and it allowed readers to be curious and keep …show more content…
In the end, George went to find Lennie and killed him because he didn’t want him to be lynched by Curley and other ranch hands. George felt it would be better if Lennie died without knowing. However, after he killed Lennie, he waited for other people to come, and he told a totally different story. “But Carlson was standing over George. ‘How’d you do it?’he asked. ‘I just done it,’ George said tiredly.” (Steinbeck, 148). In my opinion, if the author Steinbeck really wanted to show their close relationship and George’s emotion towards Lennie, George would have killed himself after he killed