Epilogue To John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Slim gives one of his puppies to Lennie to make him happy and helps Lennie after he crushed Curley’s hand. Slim helps Lennie in order to not get him in trouble and tells Curley what to do with his hand “I think you get your han' caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to” (P. 64). Slim tells a white lie to avoid Lennie getting in trouble. Also, Slim shows his compassion and understanding of George’s pain at the end of the story when George killed Lennie. Slim is the only person that understand George’s lie and says “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me” (P. 107). Slim understand why George has to kill Lennie himself and his feeling. Slim’s action demonstrates that he is a hero; trying to help and be kind to

George saved Lennie by shooting him with a gun in the back of the head. It was fast and painless, but Curley had other plans for Lennie, “We oughtta let ‘im get away. You don’t know that Curley. Curley gont’ta wanta get him lynched. Curley’ll get ‘im killed”( Steinbeck 94). Candy knows that Curely will lynch Lennie if he finds him. George knew he had to find Lennie before Curley. George decided to shoot Lennie because he knew Lennie would have either been locked up in jail his entire life, or have been beaten up and lynched by Curley. After George shoots Lennie, Slim reassures George that he did the right thing, “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda”(Steinbeck 107). George needed Slim to let him know that it was the right thing to do. Slim gave George closure, because George was in awe. George realized he did the right thing after he followed Slim out of the

This all started with Curley's wife's death. (Curley’s wife is the ranch owner's son’s wife) Curley’s wife was found in the barn with a broken neck. Old candy found her in the barn. He called all people and Curley. Curley was angry and know that Lennie has killed his wife. Curley thought this because Lennie crushed his hand and also Curley don’t like the big guys. But, other all people were telling that Lennie can’t kill Curley’s wife. But, Curley didn’t listen to them.

This displays Curley asserting his dominance over Lennie as he feels threatened by his height. It can be seen throughout the book that Curley’s body language towards Lennie and the other men taller than Curley is a dominant show of force to the other men to assert his authority over them.

“Curley’s eyes slipped on past and lighted on Lennie; and Lennie was still smiling with delight at the memory

When Lennie ends up crushing Curley’s hand. The whole scene is when Curley walks into the bunkhouse looking for his wife. He asks Lennie and Lennie doesn't answer so Curley gets mad and already wants to fight Lennie anyway so he starts punching him in the face and Lennie doesn't fight back till George tells him to. So when george finally does tell him to fight back the next punch that Curley threw Lennie ended up catching and he squeezed so tight on his hand it crushed it.

I found Lennie playin’ with his pup in the last stall in the barn. It was dead when I got there. He probably crushed it just like he did with Curley’s hand. They must think I’m stupid or somethin’-obviously it was Lennie who crushed ‘is hand. Lennie’s too strong for his own good. For some reason, George doesn’t want me to talk to Lennie. Well, I don’t think I’m any harm

They all looked out for him. Curley loved picking fights with bigger guys. One night he attacks Lennie but Lennie didn’t defend himself until George told him to. Lennie ends up breaking Curley’s arm. Both George and Lennie are scared that they would have to leave because of the fight but Slim tells them “ ‘This punk sure had it comin’ to him’ ”(Steinbeck 64.) Slim comes up with a cover story that Curly got his arm stuck in a machine and that’s how it broke. Because everyone thought Edward broke into Jim’s house to rob him, and that he purposely hurt Kim and her brother, Kevin, the whole neighborhood went after him. After Curley’s wife’s body was discovered everyone went after Lennie. George ends up killing Lennie.

Curley is introduced as a very angry character; he ‘glanced coldly at George and then at Lennie’. He then tenses up and Steinbeck describes him in a fighter’s stance, Steinbeck foreshadows

Also in the end of chapter three, after Lennie hounds and attacks Curley, Slim says, “‘Looks to me like ever’ bone in his han’ is bust… This punk sure had it comin’ to him. But- Jesus! He ain’t hardly got no han’ left’” (64). Even though Curley led Lennie on first, Lennie went over the top, and very viciously injured Curley.

54. How did Curley’s wife know that Lennie was the one who broke Curley’s hand?

‘Curley was white and shrunken by now. He stood crying, his fit lost in Lennie’s paw’

Slim goes to take a look. Whit, another ranch hand,begins to talk to George in conversation about Curley's wife. They agree that Curley's wife loves to flirt and George begins to realize that Curley's wife is going to be the doom of Lennie and him. Lennie, Carlson,and Curley walk in. Curley is once again looking for his wife and he thinks he hears Slim in the barn talking about her and storms off. Carlson follows, wanting to see a fight. While these people are gone, Lennie asks to hear George’s story of the pair’s future together and the house they will own. Candy overhears this and offers to chip in money if they'll let him in on the plan. The three of them imagine what life will be like once they have a place of their own. George and Lenny agree to let Candy live with them when the time comes. All of the other guys come back in, and Curley begins to start punching Lennie, who does nothing until George yells at him to “get im” Lennie grabs Curley's hand and crushes it. Slim breaks the fight apart and tells Curley to say that he got his hand caught in a machine or he will tell everyone what really happened. Lennie is scared that George will no longer let him tend the

Curley had a problem with Lennie from the moment he saw him because Lennie was so big, "Well nex' time you answer when you're spoke to" [26] , He felt he had to prove something, and it was only a matter of time before he would try something with Lennie. He had been waiting for any moment to strike. When Curley came for Lennie for laughing at him as he apologized to Slim, he had the upper hand at first. He attacked Lennie and tried to beat him up just because he was different and he felt he had to prove himself better. Lennie was not the type to fight; he did not want to, but he always did what George told him and when he did, he hurt Curley.

Carlson convinces candy to let him shoot his dog. Meanwhile slim gives Lennie a pup because he knew Lennie wanted one. While Curley’s accuses slim of sleeping with his wife, which causes Curley and Lennie to start a fight, which results in Curley’s hand to be broken. Finally Slim tells Curley how it is going to be with the fight that he got his hand caught in a machine.