Of Mice And Men Closing Scene Essay

In the book and the movie, the theme that is portrayed is loneliness. In the book, John Steinbeck did a great job of saying that if Lennie and George didn't have each other then they would both be extremely lonely. The movie director did the same exact thing. The movie director made it obvious that both Lennie and George are lonely because they only have each other. This made the audience feel that they are lonely and that made the movie meaningful.

In the beginning of the book, George is impatient and angry with Lennie. George and Lennie stop on the side of the road to rest, after a long journey. They make a fire and stay the night. Lennie is anxious for George to tell him about their American dream. George talks about the plans of their dream. He exclaims, “So

The end of the novel shows us just how George and Lennie would live without the other. All hope is lost for both of them and this is foreshadowed by the pigeon which flies out the barn. The pigeon symbolises the dream and freedom for Lennie and George and after Curley’s wife is killed, all this is lost. Without George, Lennie would most likely have died long before and by the end of the book, this is the way he is. Though George does not need Lennie to survive, he might as well be dead as without Lennie, George has no purpose and will be ‘just like everyone else’. He will be isolated and alone like all the other characters in the world with ‘no one to look after him and

George is the logical one, always figuring out some way to keep Lennie going. Such as the beginning of the tale when he states the dream to motivate Lennie to talk about something happy. “‘O.K. Someday we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and.’ ‘Live off the fatta the land’ Lennie shouted!”(Page 14) Talking about the dream gives Lennie some “reset” button, which sets his mood back to his cheerful self. Following the short journey of George and Lennie often involves talk about the American Dream, which ends with George losing his temper. Lennie has talked about leaving, but George wants him to stay. The relationship with Lennie is a vital factor for the dream. The significance of this is that Lennie is constantly a burden to the dream and has no way contributed to it. George needed Lennie in the idea but stated that he could make it without Lennie. Nevertheless, everything George does for Lennie is for the sake of this illusion to become a reality, even if George gets no reward. Also, George has shown that trouble follows this idea and can cause an additional problem. Candy is one of the people who has joined George. “They fell silent. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they never really believed in was coming true.” (Page 60). No longer a hallucination, George has inspired Lennie and Candy to the point where they will follow him to the end of the world.

Lennie and George’s dream is to own a piece of land to work and live where they can have cows, pigs, chicken a vegetable patch with alfalfa and rabbits. “O.K Someday – we’re going

Many scenes seemed to foreshadow the tragic ending of the book. In the first chapter we find that Lennie has mind that is of a young child, and many of his actions are done without much thought. Without George Lennie might not have made it to where the story starts off. Lennie is very much dependent on him. Which foreshadows the ending murder because it most likely wouldn’t have happened if George was there at the time. Another example is George's story of how Lennie grabbed a woman's dress in the past, hinting Lennie would fall into the same type of trouble later at the ranch. The sad events that surround Candy’s senior dog also parallel to George and Lennie's situation. The dog was to Candy as Lennie was to George, a lifetime companion. Both are forced to suffer through the difficult decisions and consequences of their companions

     Friendship has a big part to do with Lennie and George’s dream of owning a small farm and raising animals. George and Lennie both set their mind to accomplish their dream and go to work on a ranch for little pay. Another friend of George overhears George and

First of all George and Lennie’s dream was to own a farm that Lennie was the most

Comparing the ending of the movie and the book, Of Mice and Men, one may notice differences. In the end of the book, George finds Lennie before the other men, although he can hear them coming. George sits and talks with Lennie for a little while until he asks him to remove his hat and shoots him. After, the men show up. Slim shows his sympathy, but then Carlson says “Well what the hell ya suppose is eating them two?” On the contrary, the movie ends with George finding Lennie in silence. He shoots Lennie, but then he is all alone. This makes the ending of the movie more

Right from the start of the novel, Lennie and George’s dream was made very clear to the reader. Their dream was to save money to buy their own ranch. They never accomplished this dream because George spent a lot of money on gambling and alcohol. Whereas Lennie was childlike and money or anything else did not bother him at all.

George and Lennie’s dream of the farm is just out of their reach which motivates them to continue to work tenaciously so their dream will become a reality. As the novel progresses others start to join in on the dream of the farm to bring them some hope as well. Crooks, though at first was hesitant, asks if the “guys would want a hand to work” and that he can “work like a son-of-a-bitch if [he]” wants to. The dream of the farm is wish that George and Lennie would “have a little house”, “a cow and some pigs” and that they would “belong there”. Their dream is also a symbol of their brotherhood, claiming that they have “got a future” and somebody that “gives a damn about [them]”.

     The friendship between Lennie and George went beyond what was unambiguous, they shared a common dream, and they never stopped trying to acheive their dream. They dream of a peice of land of their own. Independence. A couple of acres, a cow, some pigs, and rabbits that Lennie dreams of tending to. Their dream will later be shattered by fate.

Lennie ends up ruining the peaceful time they have on the farm by killing Curley's wife and Lennie having to run away and George having to chase him to put an end to this. The connection of friendship between George and Lennie, Candy and his dog, and George and Slim deepens existing bonds and entails the story with a common connection.

When we got to the ending of the book in class and read the dialogue between George, Slim, and Carlson, I was not as upset as I was while watching the end of the movie. The dialogue did give us more answers than the book did though. It made sense that George was found after he killed Lennie rather than like in the movie, where after George shoots lennie, it transitions to a scene of George on a train. I feel like the director chose to put the flashback of George and Lennie in the movie because he knew that it’d have more of an affect on the audience rather than just including the dialogue at the end. The dialogue only helps the audience understand more of what happened after Lennie was killed. The line of dialogue that ends the book is “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?” This line was spoken by Carlson, the owner of the gun that George used to shoot Lennie. This line tells indicates that Carlson doesn’t realize something that Slim and George know. He only knows that Lennie killed Curley’s wife, and “stole” his gun from the bunks. George knows that Lennie didn’t mean to kill Curley’s wife. He was only trying to stop her from screaming and drawing attention to the

George is faced with a decision that will shatter his world and ultimately cause him to give up on his lifelong dream. Candy shows George the dead body, and now he has a decision to make. Will he flee the ranch, go meet Lennie and runaway together, like they did in Weed or tell the men, that it was Lennie who killed Curley’s wife and allow him to be lynched. George has to protect himself, because everyone would think that he was apart of the murder and he would be jailed or lynched too. George thinks that the men will track down Lennie, lynch him and not give him a fair trial. George could not imagine this happening to his lifelong friend. He had to do something to protect the integrity of his friend.