Character Analysis Of Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Lastly, Lennie’s mental state lead to his death because he couldn't learn from his mistakes. Lennie has had a history of causing problems. In his old town Weed that him and George got chased out because Lennie got accused of rape. Just like Weed Lennie caused a problem which led to him being shot by George.

Lennie starts having a conversation to Crooks, but he keeps babbling about the promises to keep their farm a secret. George is basically the brain of Lennie, without him he'll be in trouble.

Everyone has had a caretaker or guardian to protect and care for them at some period in time. Developing into an adult is often times when a person becomes able to live independently. However, this is not the case for Lennie Small from the story, “Of Mice and Men” as a result of his disability. Being dependant on other people, Lennie needs a caretaker because of the lack of family to protect him. Someone without family relation, George, rises to the position as his caretaker in the harsh, unforgiving circumstances they have at the moment. Dreaming of a better future, George has to carry Lennie from job to job in order to eventually collect enough money to finally claim their land as their own. George has good, honest intentions for Lennie and only strives to give him the best conditions even if it meant he had to pull the trigger against him.

Some people think that George did not do the right thing by killing Lennie because there were alternative options for shooting him. But, if George and Lennie decided to run away, they would be running their whole life, and if George decided to turn Lennie in, he

So George, has to choose what he's going to do with Lennie, kill him or let him live. George did do the right thing by killing Lennie because, Lennie held George down, Lennie will continue to get in trouble, and other people are after Lennie. Others may claim that, George could’ve just kept a better eye on Lennie. However, George shouldn't have to babysit Lennie every second of the day. He has other things to do, he has to work.

Lennie is he only sorta family that george has. “ when you see ,Im don't give ‘Im no chance shoot for his guts that'll double ‘Im over” (Steinbeck 97). This proves that the guys wanted to torture him to death because if you shoot somebody in the guts they die a long and slow death, so they wanted to make him suffer for what he accidentally did for killing curley's

Lennie and George were always together especially after Lennie's aunt Clara died. George explained his relationship with Lennie by saying, "Him and me was both born in Auburn. I knowed his Aunt Clara. She took him when he was a baby and raised him up. When his Aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin'. Got kinda used to each other after a little while” (Steinbeck 386). Lennie has always had someone to care for him. George took it upon himself to provide for Lennie after his aunt died. If something happens to George or they get separated Lennie wouldn’t know what to do. George killing Lennie was better off for the both of

George finds Lennie after he finds out that there is no more hope for Lennie and decides to kill lennie in the back of the head. “He brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head… Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.” (pg.106) George kills Lennie as a way to keep people safe from him and to also make Lennie finally be at peace.

George killed Lennie with mercy and love. George had to do what he did or he would have felt awful if someone else killed Lennie in front of him. When George heard that Candy was sad when he didn’t kill his dog when he wished he did it really changed George’s perspective on the whole situation. “I wished somebody’d shoot me, but they won’t do nothing like that.” George was also giving Lennie a good and peaceful death. He

George made the wrong decision killing Lennie because Lennie is disabled. People that are disabled can not control their actions. Some people would say to put him in a institution. The problem is that they have no money and there was not a lot of institutions back then. Lennie did not mean to kill Curley's wife he got scared and accidently killed her.

Lennie had dreams of living on a ranch and raising rabbits and George just took that away from Lennie. George will no one to live out the rest of his life with. If he goes back to a different ranch or another place for work, he won’t have anyone to help him. Even though George hated having Lennie around, Lennie helped George a lot. Lennie protected George from Curley by crushing his hand.

Lennie couldn’t take care of himself, and he was dangerous. George was saving Lennie from a harder life and/or a more painful death. George had to kill Lennie because he was dangerous. Lennie was not smart, and acted like a child.

Some of the terms non-voluntary euthanasia includes “...the person is severely brain damaged, the person is mentally challenged to an extreme extent” (bbc.co.uk), Lennie was extremely mentally challenged and killing him is justified. George is innocent for killing Lennie for his own good because he was constantly worrying about hurting others and he could have hurt himself. People with mental issues were also treated very differently during the great depression, and if Lennie was not mercifully killed he could have ended up being hung, out jail, or as Crooks said, put into a insane asylum. George wanted to protect Lennie’s happiness, and the only way he could do this is by putting Lennie to sleep. There was no other option because we have no idea what Lennie would do

Lennie, realizing he’s done a bad thing, runs out. Remembering what George said in the beginning of the story, Lennie runs out to the spot and is going to wait for George. Later, Candy finds the dead body and informs George. They both instantly know it was Lennie and worry because they both conclude that Curley would lynch Lennie. In the scene, candy asks if their dreams of the ranch are off and George never fully answered the question only saying since Lennie believed in this ranch he started to have hope as well.

Lennie would have either been killed, imprisoned or put in an insane asylum as shown when crooks says, “ They’ll take ya to the booby hatch”. George is the only reason any of these events have have not happened, but however George can’t always be there, just as candy’s dog couldn’t help being smelly and eventually he would have to be put down with Carlson’s