Does the story end the way you expected it to? As I was finishing each chapter, I was predicting what the next chapter would be about, my predictions weren't so similar to the book. Although some ideas were not so different but not so alike. In chapter 2, when Curley was snapping at Lennie, I thought Lennie was done for, since Curley was the boss's son. But it wasn't like that, Lennie stayed with his job. Curley is a small guy and Lennie is a big guy; therefor Curley doesn't like big guys, so he has the urge to pick on guys who are bigger. In chapter 3, Carlson was always complaining about the smell of Candy's dog; which he offers to shoot. I thought Carlson would wouldn’t actually shoot Candy’s dog, but he did. When Curley came into the …show more content…
At first Crooks sends Lennie away, and I figured Lennie would leave, but eventually a conversation results in which Crooks lets Lennie stay and talk, “This is just a nigger talkin’, an’ a busted -back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an’ over- a guy talkin’ to another guy and it dont make no difference if he dont understand. The thing is, they’re talkin’, or they’re settin’ still not talkin’. It don't make no difference, no difference”(Steinbeck 71) To conclude the book didn't end the way I expected it to end, in my perception they went on to buy the farm and live off of that, but from what I read it didn't end that way. Reading toward the end of the book at the point where Lennie was grabbing on to Curley's wife, I thought that George or someone else would have caught him and would've told him to stop. Instead Lennie kills curley's wife by choking her till' death. Lennie then runs away looking for safety. When the boys get back, Candy see's Curley's wife lying dead. Curley is quick to blame it on someone, and that someone is Lennie. George is obligated to shoot and kill Lennie; he remembers the spot where he previously told lennie to go in case of an emergency and goes out to search for him. George finds lennie and is left with the hard decision of killing his best friend. George hesitates in killing Lennie, but finally George talks to Lennie