Of Mice And Men Movie Analysis

George and Lennie were best friends for a long time, more like brothers. Lennie is about as bright as a 2 watt bulb, so George couldn’t really get mad at him when he accidently killed Curley’s wife while feeling the softness of her hair. “…’I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know’”. The two had planned a future together—a future in their own dream ranch, a ranch where no trouble would ever bother them. “’You…an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em’”. Then after he tells him about the rabbits that Lennie is so fond of, he shoots him in the back of the head where he knows it will not hurt him, and Lennie will not know what hit him. This is the peaceful alternative to what Curley had in store for him. Curley's exact words were "shoot the bastard right in the guts." George's euthanizing of Lennie makes the mentally incompetent Lennie die with dignity. Had Curley gotten to Lennie first, Lennie would have suffered. This shows you how much George cares for Lennie, no matter what he does or the crimes he commits. He’d always be there to help Lennie get right back up to his feet, make him forget all his worries, and move on like nothing happened. I strongly believe George was the right person to kill Lennie, and made the right decision in doing so, rather than to let him suffer in the hands of Curley.

I liked how they removed this scene because it would be extremely sad to see Lennie killed, and then George walking around as if he had done the right thing. The way the flashback was portrayed and how George “ran away” after killing Lennie showed that he actually cared and might have even regretted it. Removing the scene also prevented George from lying, by saying that Lennie stole Carlson’s Luger when really, it was George who had obviously planned committing the murder. Also, the movie would have had to have been longer, because obviously murder is against the law and the movie couldn’t end with nothing being done about George killing Lennie. They wouldn’t be able to drop it as easily as it had been done in the book, and the movie would have to end in a completely different way, depending on how murder was dealt with in Soledad. Therefore, considering the points mentioned, I really didn’t like that scene and I think removing it from the movie was a good

Because Lennie and Candy’s dog were both shot by their best friend and by the same way and similar reason, it foreshadowed Lennie’s death. George throwing the gun and then throwing the mouse at the beginning and a the end of the book foreshadowed that he would have something to do with the death of Lennie because he threw both things that killed Lennie into the distance. And George trying to save Lennie was foreshadowed by George trying to take away the things that would eventually lead to Lennie’s death. All of the foreshadowed events gave the audience a warning of what was yet to come and how the ending of the story would come to be without even having to read the ending of the book “Of Mice and Men” by John

In the book, Crooks, Candy and Lennie all have a grand conversation about the farm and the dream of having their own land. Crooks opens up to the men and seems to leave his shell so to speak which is followed by Curley’s wife entering and tearing him down. This is a strange scene to leave out based on how important it seemed to be considering it shows more of Lennie’s character as well as Curley’s wife’s cruel side. Finally, at the end of the novel Slim, Curley and Carlson find Lennie dead and George with the gun in his hand. George lies and tells the men that Lennie had Carlson's gun and that he took the gun from Lennie shot him in the back of his neck. Slim tries to console George by telling him “You Hadda George.” and the two walking away for a drink. Curley then asks Carlson what's bugging the two. This scene was completely cut out of the movie and replaced with George's flashbacks which seems very odd considering how important it was to the novel and the idea that not all dreams are meant to be.

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

The character in Of Mice and Men that is most similar to Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby is Curley. Curley and Tom Buchanan have many similarities throughout both books. These shared characteristics stem from one thing both men have an abundance of: privilege. Curley and Tom are easily two characters with the least amount of struggle in The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men.

George faced ultimate consequences in the end. At first Lennie killed a puppy because he it’s fur to hard and it died. Next he was stroking Curley's wife’s hair and wouldn’t let go, so it caused her neck to snap. Again George was in serious trouble due to Lennie’s trouble was to kill him, himself, rather than Curley. Curley would have made Lennie suffer so George killed his friend humanely. In the end George not only lost his friends, but his American dream.

In Of Mice and Men, the portrayals of George and Lennie’s relationship are shown differently in movie because some scenes are added and some scenes are deleted. When Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife, George has no choice but kill Lennie before Curley gives Lennie a painful death so “George raised the gun and steadied it...The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied.”(106). Because George has such a strong bond with Lennie, killing Lennie is a herculean task. Anyone who has to kill the only person they cared about like George will spend a bunch of time hemming and hawing about executing that person. In the movie, George and Lennie are in the middle of talking about their dream when George

This is what most consider the climax of the novel. From what the novel says about Lennie, he is someone that is not so bright. Countless times George has to tell him to be quiet or not to do something. George is not the most gentle man either, this is shown through how he treats animals. The first incident is when Lennie has a mouse. “That mouse ain’t fresh, Lennie; and besides, you’ve broke it pettin’ it.” (Steinbeck pg. 9) Because of the shear size of Lennie, it does not take much force to apply pain to something. This being said, him even petting a mouse in his pocket kills the poor rodent. The second incident of Lennie being rough around animals is with Slim’s pups. When Slim speaks of having some pups Lennie takes interest fairly quickly. Slim allows Lennie to hold one and eventually take one. Later on in the novel, Lennie is in the barn while the other boys play horseshoes. Little do they know, Lennie had killed that pup Slim gave him. “I was jus’ playin’ with him . . . an’ he made like he’s gonna bite me . . . an’ I made like I was gonna smack him . . . an’ . . . an’ I done it. An’ then he was dead.” (Steinbeck pg. 87) The final incident where Lennie shows some bad behavior is when he kills Curley’s wife. These events all end in tragedy, the untimely death of Lennie. George and the others knew that it was the right thing to do. George decides he should be the one to do it, with Carlson’s gun. This leads the reader to believe karma was involved in Lennie’s death. All of the lives he took eventually made it so he had to be too.

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Of Mice and Men is an action-packed, but peaceful film and novella by John Steinbeck. The movie has been made as an interpretation by Gary Sinise, who is the director and one of the main characters. Of Mice and Men is about George and Lennie (Gary Sinise, John Malkovich) who are very close friends. George is a short and smart man. On the other hand, Lennie is a big man who is mindless.

At this point George knows what he has to do and the dream starts to fade away for him. During the ending of the book, George and Lennie are talking at the point where the book started and the dream is brought up again. While George is telling the story of how they are going to tend the rabbits and going to plant alfalfa (105), he shoots Lennie. This is a physical killing of a person but it is also the death of their dream. This expresses both the friendship between George and Lennie because he wanted to put Lennie down before he was attacked by Curley’s gang; and it also expresses how Lennie was Georges hope and he kept the dream alive for George and with the killing of Lennie, the dream died along with

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

The very end of the book ends in the same setting when Lennie runs and hides to the brush after killing Curley’s wife. George talks to him about their plans with the rabbits just like he did that night, and that’s when he kills him. The details in the beginning gave the readers hints about what was going to happen near the end when George came to find Lennie.

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author wrote many novels including one of his most famous, Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men teaches many lessons about the nature of human existence. Each relationship grows throughout this short story and end with a dramatic experience. All of the characters, including Lennie, George, Crooks, and Curley’s wife, admit, at one time or another, to having a profound sense of isolation, seclusion and loneliness.