“The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” (P.106). In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, there is a massive conflict at the end of book. At the end, Lennie kills Curley 's wife and George has to make the decision to kill or spare Lennie. George decided to shoot Lennie in the back of the head, many have different opinions on how the book should have ended but George made the right choice. He made the appropriate decision to shoot Lennie for the following reasons: Lennie might kill more people, Curley and the rest of the farm workers would have killed him anyways, and George made Lennie 's last few moments enjoyable. In the first place, Lennie was capable of endangering more people. After seeing that he was able to kill a human, he could easily kill another. “ ‘Don 't you go yelling’’ he said, and he shook her and her body flopped like a fish. And …show more content…
Next, if George didn 't do it then Curley and the rest of the farm workers would have killed Lennie. It was better that someone who actually knew and cared about Lennie killed him, instead of strangers who didn 't understand that Lennie is harmless. “ ‘Don’t shoot ‘im?’ Curley cried. ‘He got Carlsons Luger ‘Course we’ll shoot ‘im’ ” (P.98). Considering this quote, it shows that the workers were ready to kill Lennie with no mercy. In brief, if George didn 't kill Lennie then the others would have done it anyways. Lastly, George made sure that Lennie enjoyed his last few conscious moments. Right before killing Lennie, George talked about all of Lennie 's favorite things. “ ‘We’ll have a cow’, said George. ‘An we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens… an’ down the flat we’ll have a… little piece alfalfa -” (P.105). George had Lennie look off across the lake and talked about how they are going to run away and live on a farm with all the animals that Lennie wants. To summarize, George made sure that Lennie didn 't know he was about to be killed, he made sure Lennie went