Analysis Of Of Mice And Men

After Lennie has inadvertently murdered Curley’s wife, Curley’s lynch mob go out in search of Lennie. George’s decision is almost inevitable to spare Lennie’s life, rather than let Curley and his gang destroy the bit of life Lennie has.

As many people who were out to get Lennie, the only person qualified to kill him was George. George has been there for Lennie, his whole life, “Him and me was both born in Auburn… When his Aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin’. Got kinda used to each other after a little while” (Steinbeck 40). Furthermore, George was only trying to take away more suffering later in the future. Since Lennie killed Curley’s wife,

To George and Lennie, having a friend with them is really lucky, but their luckiness didn 't last very long. At the end of the book, George shot Lennie at the back of his head. That was one of George’s two choices: let Curley kill Lennie or kill Lennie by himself. Like a father, George thought it’s his responsibility to kill Lennie to payback the life of

Lennie would never be able to survive without George, Lennie would be miserable alone and scared.Lennie would have been tortured by Curley if George had not killed Lennie.Before George killed Lennie says "I remember the rabbits,George”.George and Lennie would not been able to get away since last time they had a head start . Lennie would suffer regardless with George even if he came to see him in prison.Lennie has no way out in this so George did the right thing by putting Lennie out of his misery by killing him.Curley would not just kill Lennie he would have made him suffer by torturing him because Lennie had humiliated Curly twice.

What truly is the “American Dream”? Furthermore, during the Great Depression, even the concept of the “American Dream” was not readily available and was no more than a fallacy at the time. For the 2 protagonists in Of Mice And Men, their dream, like many others, was to “live off the fatta the land” and become independent. However, this was not such an easy task at the time, not just because of the rough economic times, but because people of that era still had World War 2 still very fresh in their minds, with the harbored hatred and untrust that came along with it. Nevertheless, for the millions who died in the course of the war, this “American Dream” was not only something worth living for it was something dying for too. However, in the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author emphasizes that the dreams and hopes were delusions and has a grim outlook on living life in search of a dream.

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George knew that Lennie would never be truly happy without him. George knew that if he didn’t get to Lennie first, than Lennie would go to jail . He also knew that Lennie couldn’t live without him, because Lennie depends on George to always be there for him. Lennie humiliated Curley when Lennie broke Curley’s hand. Curley said to the guys around him, “‘I’m going in shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand’” (98). George knew that Lennie would be tortured by Curley because Lennie killed Curley's wife and humiliated him when Lennie broke Curley’s hand and won the fight, so George had to kill Lennie to keep him from suffering. Lennie would either in jail and suffer because Lennie doesn't have George, or be killed and tortured by Curley and suffer because Curley won’t kill him fast. George only had one choice and that was to kill

It was difficult to accept which is why they ran away so many times but George realized that they couldn’t always run away from their problems and that they can’t just got from job to job every time Lennie makes a mistake. Also Curley was still upset about Lennie breaking his hand so he wanted Lennie to die and he was going to make sure that he suffered so this was the only way that Lennie could go in a peaceful way. “But Curley’s gonna want to shoot ‘im. Curley’s still mad about his hand. An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George.” George also knew that Lennie was only going to become more dangerous to those around him and knew that if he went somewhere else he would hurt someone else and he didn’t want that to

The only way George knew how to deal with him was letting roam around unsupervised .The day Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife, he is left all alone, unattended while George and the other guys play horseshoes this . He could have stopped the event from ending so badly if he just let Lennie watch them play or give him a small thing to do to keep him distracted keeping his eyesight. George may care for Lennie, but he fails to keep him safe . An example is when Curley out anger and embarrassment punches Lennie over and over in the gut and the stomach instead of helping Lennie, he just sits back and tell him to fight back. This shows how he would rather prove a point of him being able to fight his own battles then actually helping him out of danger. On one hand Lennie was able to squeeze his hand and subdued him, but on the other hand Lennie is not mentally an adult is severely mentally challenged and has a huge

First of all, George shouldn’t of killed Lennie because, Lennie didn’t mean to kill Curley’s wife. Lennie knew that if someone saw Curley’s wife lying on the floor dead they would tell Curley that someone had kill your wife. (If Lennie hadn’t kill Curley’s wife they wouldn’t be looking for him, Lennie would still be alive, and have a job, roof, and he would still be with George.) Lennie didn’t want to die, and Curley wanted Lennie to suffer a slow and painful death.

George says I gotta stay here an’ not get in no trouble.’” (75). Here, George leaves Lennie alone creating distance between them where Lennie is free to get hurt. This is different to in the beginning where he would try to keep Lennie by his side so he could protect him. Near the end, after Curley’s wife is found dead, Curley’s anger turns into a need for revenge.

He would’ve been killed anyway and it would have been crueler to die in the hands of a stranger. George may have had two other options. He could have told Lennie to run far away to be safe from the angry farmhand mob coming after him, but since Lennie has the brain of a small child, he would not be able to survive without George. Lennie left alone is like a child without their parent, and you would hope that no parent would let their child survive on their own in a situation like this. Lennie would end up in trouble again with no one to help him out and he would either get locked up in jail or killed. Just like Lennie said, “I got you to look after me, and me to look after you.”(Page 15) Alternatively, George had the option to reason with Curley and explain to him that what Lennie did was an accident, but because Curley is so stubborn and hardheaded he would have thought George helped Lennie commit the crime. Curley was already suspicious of George and demanded that he stay by his side, “So we don’t think you had nothin’ to do with this.”(Page 95) Any attempt to change Curley’s mind was meaningless because he had already made his decision when he told the farmhands, “I’m gonna shoot the guts outta that big bastard myself, even if I only got one hand. I’m gonna get ’im.”(Page

In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men characters in the novel are segregated by sex, race, age, physical and mental disabilities. John Steinbeck portrays the intolerance and bigotry of 1930’s America through the separation of his characters based on their handicaps. Lennie, Candy, Candy’s dog, Curley’s wife and Crooks all face social pressure from the other characters on the ranch based on their intelligence, physical disability, age, sex and color. Stereotyping based on ethnic or physical characteristics is typical to the 1930’s depression where civil rights for minority groups had not yet been addressed. Almost all of the characters who, in

“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it”You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice .... The American dream a common theme that appears throughout John Steinbeck's book “Of Mice and Men” as well as the poem”The American Dream” by Amy H. from Wichita, Kansas. The book “Of Mice and Men”a novel that is about two friends in search for their dream, working their hardest in order to achieve their objective. “The American Dream” poem is a poem that illustrates a lifestyle that would be dreamt about. Often Things that might not be meant to have a similar theme do indeed have the same theme, in this case the American dream is a theme that both Of Mice and Men and The American Dream have in common.

John Steinbeck wrote ‘Of Mice and Men’ to show how hard life was for migrant ranch workers during the time of the Great Depression and how they were often exploited by their employers. In showing how George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own piece of land did not come true, Steinbeck explores a wider theme, criticising the idea of the American Dream. The American Dream tells people that there is ‘opportunity for each... regardless of the fortuitous circumstance of birth and position. Steinbeck criticises this as these ranch workers were given few opportunities. Settings play a very important part in the novel as they pinpoint clear times and places giving a sense of realism to the story, but they are also used to create atmosphere.