Comparing John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

While Lennie was in the barn something was going on in the bunk house. Carlson was trying to persuade Candy to let him shoot his dog. Carlson argued that the dog was old, sick and miserable and that ending its suffering would be the best thing to do for the dog. After a few minutes, of thought Candy wearily agreed. So Carlson took the old, weary dog outside put a gun to the back of the dog’s head and pulled the trigger.

In the same way that Crooks looks weak, Candy shows weakness when he lets Carlson shoot his old dog. Killing the weak old dog shows how important it was to be strong. Candy regrets letting a stranger take his dog away to shoot him, and feels like he should have taken the dog himself because he had him since he was a small puppy.. He feels weak because he didn’t

The way the characters react towards the shooting of Candy’s dog reveals a lot abut the characters that we might not have expected. Carlson offers to shoot the old dog, complaining many times of the smell. The shooting of Candy's dog shows the callousness of Carlson and the reality of old age and infirmity. Carlson typifies the men George describes as “the loneliest guys in the world”. He is outwardly friendly, but essentially selfish. He finds the smell of an old dog offensive so the dog must be shot. He shows very little regard to the dog’s owner, Candy. He relentlessly pursues the dog’s death, more for his own comfort than to put the dog out of its misery. However, Steinbeck does show some sympathy in Carlson, when he suggests “he won’t

This affected the story by making the audience really sad when they killed his dog. If he hadn’t been seen as a vulnerable person then Candy could have stopped them from killing his dog. That wouldn’t have made the audience sad. After becoming sad the audience would start to see how bad Candy is treated because of his age and understand how the discrimination was. It also affected the story by putting Candy in a mindset of wanting to get out of there, so he proposes to join George and Lennie in buying the little house. This pretty much sealed the deal for the house, until Lennie killed Curley’s wife.

I believe that George should have killed Lennie rather than, the ranch hands. I think this because that Ranch hands would have hurt Lennie but they were still going to kill him. George killed Lennie quick and painlessly, if it were the ranch hands Lennie would have suffered, with George he did not even know he was going to die. Know George could have just let Lennie run and hope that no one finds him, but George even said himself “ Lennie you can’t do anything without me”, or something like that. If George would have let Lennie run it is very likely that he would either, die from starvation, or get in trouble and just keep getting in trouble, or he kills another person again on accident and gets killed from that. Either way Lennie is screwed

(1) In fact, some student and workshop productions of the play omit the dog entirely. But Candy and the dog are very important to the action. The point of Carlson's shooting of the dog--who is old and blind and smells--is not to make an easy parallel with George's shooting of Lennie, as Peter Lisca and Harry T. Moore seem to think. (2) It is not so much the dog who is in the same position as the imbecilic Lennie; it is the shooting of the dog that places Candy in the same position. Once he does not have his dog to look after anymore, Candy realizes the precariousness of his own position on the ranch: he is without one hand and therefore only able to "swamp out" bunkhouses, and he is fast approaching

the dog was his best friend and Candy feels like he betrayed his dog. By having Carlson shoot Candy’s dog, Candy lost his friend that he should of shot himself to put his dog out of

Like Candy, Candy’s dog is faced with the ultimate punishment for his age and disability. Candy’s dog is old and said to smell bad and isn’t worth anything, the dog is shot because of its disabilities. This event foreshadows Lennie’s fate at the hand of George. Both of these characters’ euthanasia is rationalized to put them out of their misery and to prevent future suffering from happening due to their disabilities. Which is almost a mirror image of George and Lennie’s relationship where George has known Lennie for a considerable amount of time and George knows that he is completely responsible of Lennie’s well-being and when that well-being is in jeopardy George feels a moral obligation just like Candy did when he gave permission to Carlson to shoot his dog. The euthanizing of Candy’s dog is a “foreshadowing of what will happen with Lennie and George” (Thomas Scarseth) because both Candy and George’s relationship to those dependent to them end with them killing them in order to save them from suffering.

Candy said they shot his dog, no wonder he ain’t in here tonight. An’ maybe that was the reason behind the gunshot I heard when I was in the barn with my pup. When we heard the voices outside getting closer to the bunkhouse, George warned us to keep this plan to ourselves because they might prevent us from making a stake. I repeated this, to keep it in mind, because for some reason if I say it outloud, I remember. I was so busy thinking bout the ranch when the boys come in, I didn't know what they were sayin’. Curley came to me an’ was anxious to start a fight. He started to hit me, first with his left hand, then with his right he smashed my nose. I was so frightened I didn’t know what to do. I covered my face, so he wouldn’t hit it, but that was a mistake because he cut off my wind. I looked for George, and I removed my hands from my face, but my eyes were Curley’s victim. I heard George yellin’ at me to do something so I grabbed Curley’s hand that came as a fist and squeezed it with my hand. George came an’ told me to let go, but I was in shock an’ was trying to take in what jus’ happened. They rushed to take Curley to the doctor, and all I could think of was what have I

In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. One event that foreshadows the death of Lennie is the death of Candy's dog. Carlson tells Candy that his "Ol' dog jus' suffers hisself all the time," It would best if Carlson "take(s) him out and shoot him right in the back of the head." As the novel progresses George mirrors the actions of Carlson when he struggles to lift the gun to shoot his dearest friend. "George raised the gun... hand shock violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger." It is fair to draw a comparison between these two events, because candy's dog is not doing himself any good and can't do anything by himself. Lennie is stuck in the same situation. The best option is to kill them both to stop the

“I ain’t got no relatives nor nothing.” “I wisht somebody’d shoot me.” In these quotes was Candy trying to justify why he want’s to live with Lennie and George and what he's been through. When Candy found out Lennie and George were getting a house, he saw his chance for escape. He just wanted to able to settle down knowing he had

Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in 1937. The book tells a story of two men named Lennie Small and George Milton, who were ranch workers that moved from many different towns in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression. George is Lennie's guardian and best friend. His friendship with Lennie helps strengthen their dream of a better future. Lennie is a mentally disabled, but is physically a strong man who travels with George as his companion.

Known as Lennie’s caretaker and best friend George Milton is a protagonist of the story Of Mice And Men, but what do we really know about George? George Milton is a quick-tempered but also understanding, lonely and intelligent compared to his bearlike companion Lennie. George's personality often reflects both anger and understanding. Of the two men, he is the one who thinks things through and considers how their goals can be reached. George comes up with the details: where they will get the ranch, how long they must work to pay for it, and how they will have to keep a low profile in order to work for the next month.

Humans connect with each other through their emotions, even when they do not reveal them out loud. Candy is a character from John Steinbeck’s classic book, Of Mice and Men. He had to go through a lot of core damaging events that he had no control of throughout the course of this book. A quick review of Candy is that he is an old, disabled male who feels like he is the most expendable worker on the farm. His character is grounded because he shows emotions that all humans are familiar with.

In the scene it's very seldom known how the dog died in the moment outside rather how candy’s emotions portrayed his love for an animal that he had been with for a long time. Steinbeck shows the intensity by not showing the scene of death but how everyone that is inside the bunkhouse reacts a quote showing this is “Look Candy. This ol dog just suffers himself all the time If you was to take him out and shoot Shoot him in the back of the head why he would never know what hit him”. This shows that Candy knew what was coming end wanted to avoid it. In doing so Carlson took him out back with a shovel and a gun and shot him and buried him so Candy wouldn't have to experience that pain. It is almost the exact same scene where Lennie dies because