Importance Of Choices In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Justice! What does it mean to be justified? Tricking your best friend? Betraying and ending his dream? Gunning him down from behind? Well, in the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, two men, George and Lennie, shared and worked for the same dream until several problems occurred, when eventually their dream lead to Lennie's demise. It was justified when George shot Lennie because Lennie made multiple poor mistakes, it was the only necessary thing to do. Many people argues it was unjustified to kill Lennie because they could have escaped together, however Lennie is a nuisance and tends to cause trouble

Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. In life everyone will make a decision they may not like, but they have to because it was the best choice. George Milton is a perfect example of this. Even though he knew killing Lennie Smalls would be an extremely hard thing to do, he also knew it was the best option for Lennie. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, George made the right decision taking Lennie’s life so Lennie would not have been afraid, the other men could not torture him, and because George was responsible for Lennie.

Some people have to face difficult decisions in their life. In fact, some people have to make decisions between life and death. In John Steinbeck’s, Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie are best friends and migrant workers during the Great Depression. Many characters face discrimination in the story including Lennie, Crooks, and Candy. Lennie is a tall guy who has a mental disability which makes it hard to distinguish between right and wrong. Crooks faces racism everyday, while Candy deals with ageism. On the other hand, Curley is a small man who is very intimidated by men bigger and stronger than him. George acts as Lennie’s caretaker and best friend. But, George realizes he has to make a life-changing decision when Curley threatens to hunt

Sometimes you make decisions that take other people into consideration, but a majority of the time you make choices without realizing it will affect other people. Situations like that happen a lot in “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. Throughout the book, the characters face many situations in which they have to make difficult choices. Most of the time the choices that the characters make create a snowball effect and turn into bigger problems. There are many instances throughout the book where this has happened.

The relationship between Willie and his mother and the reaction they have to the homeless man

A reader finds many examples of loyalty and obedience impacting eternity in the choices of Wormwood’s patient and Lennie.

Throughout the play, Willy’s ideas of happiness prevent him from realizing that his acts are cowardly. To him, financial success embodies happiness. His comparisons of himself to others show his idealizations. Mainly, he idolizes Ben, who walked into Africa at age seventeen and walked out four years later as a wealthy man. Willy also compares himself to Dave Singleman, a salesman he met on the road early in his career. Dave prospered as a salesman even at age eighty-four. Willy asks his boss, Howard, "What could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?" (Miller 1251). Due to his belief that money creates happiness, Willy feels that money will mend the broken

In the story Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, George Milton is faced with a decision

When Boy Willie went up to Pittsburg he had intentions of getting money to buy his land. He stopped at Berniece’s house to say he wanted to sell the piano to get what he needed to buy Sutter’s land. When Berniece said no Boy Willie tried telling her that their dad would’ve sold such land to get the land to provide. He said that he wants to actually make use of the piano and

John Steinbeck, born in February 27, 1902, worked as a manual labor worker before achieving his success as a well renowned American writer. A compassionate understanding of the world 's disinherited was to be Steinbeck 's hallmark. The novel In Dubious Battle (1936) defends striking migrant agricultural workers in the California fields. In the novel Of Mice and Men(1937; later made into a play), Steinbeck again utilizes the hardships of migrant workers, but this time in terms of human worth and integrity. With the country struggling to recover the collapse of the economy and a second world war, the people of the United States needed to know that they were

Tough circumstances can make decision-making difficult, especially if the decision is a life changing situation. The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck has a beautiful storyline with the themes of love, trust, and friendship. George and Lennie are the main characters in Of Mice and Men and they bring about all those themes, but their lives and friendship are not always perfect. Lennie is an intellectually disabled man with great strength, and George is a bit smaller but has greater knowledge. George and Lennie have been with each other since Lennie’s Aunt Clara died. Lennie makes many mistakes having the disability he has. In the previous town Lennie and George lived in Lennie made the mistake of grabbing a woman's dress because he thought

The watermelons he is selling will cover half the cost and would like to sell the piano to get the other half. This is very key as Boy Willie recognizes its significance but justifies the action because no one plays the piano anymore. In a sense Boy Willie is pushing aside his ancestral heritage and at the same time pointing out his family 's recent neglect to acknowledge their heirloom. The piano is something to embrace as a family, but as Boy Willie and Berniece demonstrate they currently can not embrace it and have it looming over their heads.

Thomas Scarseth included several critiques in his published article. Scareth focused on pointing out the examples of theme, character, and symbolism in the novel, Of Mice and Men. He supported his claims with strong textual evidence. Hev then went on to explain the reasoning behind his views.

Yes, little Willie was growing. Day by day, month by month, the flimsy maltreated boy became a healthy young artist. However it wasn’t just young Willie who had grown but old Mr. Thomas Oakley. His love for William had helped him overcome his mourning. William had defiantly not just changed Tom but the whole of little Weirwold with his veneration. He showed no matter how bad your background is, you can still live a better life.

They were then separated into several different houses never to live with together again. Willie ended up living with his dad who was constantly working. He strived in school because he didn’t want to end up like his parents. One afternoon Willie saw his mother passed out in a yard in the neighborhood. When things went wrong, all Willie could do was cry and be sad because he really had no one to turn to. Later in the year, Willie became homecoming king which symbolized to him that he did not let the past reflect the way he would end up. “Being named homecoming king was a powerful symbol to him that his past had not defined him nor deterred him from success,” (244). He finished high school and later went to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia for business. Willie did not let what his mother did or the lack of authority affect his success in going to college and quitting the cycle of his parents.