The Consequences of Lennie's Carelessness in In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

Steinbeck portrays Lennie to be very careless and irresponsible through the death of the mouse, the puppy and Curley’s wife. The death of the mouse foreshadows the death of the puppy and the death of Curley’s wife. Through the death of the mouse we see how Lennie is irresponsible for his actions. “They was so little,” he said apologetically. This shows that Lennie is taking

As the defence lawyer for George Milton, I argue that my client should not be convicted for the murder of Lennie Small based on the structure of his relationship with Lennie and his pure intentions.

Like the man, Lennie’s actions/brute force result in unintended harm. This is evident through Lennie’s encounters first with the pup and later with Curley’s wife. It is also demonstrated anecdotally with tales of unfortunate mice from Lennie’s childhood.

First here are the events leading up to lennie’s untimely death. Well lennie and george find a ranch but there is tension between curley and lennie because of his size. One day curley's wife and lennie are in the barn alone and lennie accidentally broke her neck killing her so lennie runs off. Curley sets out to find lennie and this is when george killed lennie. You might be saying the events don’t make it right. Well curley would have killed lennie one way or another.

He regrets letting Carlson shoot his dog and wished that he had done it himself. Just like the dog, Lennie is also shot through the back of the head. After Lennie kills Curley’s wife, he follows George’s orders and runs back to the Salinas River; knowing that trouble would arise. George ends up shooting Lennie through he back of the head, knowing that if he left Lennie alive the other men would

Initially, Lennie’s first misdeed occurs in Weed. While in Weed, Lennie becomes excited, grabs a hold of a young girl’s dress, and does not understand when he needs to let go. This leads to both George and Lennie being forced to run away for their own safety, as Lennie is accused of raping the young girl. In addition, once arriving in Soledad, readers are given a sense of unease at the introduction of the characters Curley and Curley’s Wife. This can be seen as yet another example of foreshadowing, hinting to the reader that something unpleasant will happen between Lennie, Curley, and Curley’s Wife later in the book, as George warns him with “Look, Lennie!... You gonna have trouble with that Curley guy” (29). Later, Curley has a fight with Lennie over his wife, resulting to Lennie being beaten, but Curley is carried off with a broken hand. Furthermore, Lennie’s acts once more escalate when he grabs a hold of the hair of Curley’s Wife and eventually kills her by snapping her neck when he again is unable to release his grip on her. The escalation of these events point to Lennie’s own death, as each of his wrongdoings have worse punishments, from running away, to being beaten, to eventually being mercifully dispatched by

There are more than 4.6 million people in the United States that suffer from intellectual disabilities. n the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck one of the main characters suffers from retardation.Lennie would have been better off in today's world than he was back in the 1930s.

Steinbeck foreshadowing the death of Curley's wife. When Lennie gets scared he gets nervous and he does not let go of her. Lennie does not like when George gets mad at him. Steinbeck states "Let go," she cried." You let go!" "Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then, and Lennie's other hand closed over her mouth and nose!"(Steinbeck 91). When Lennie kills Curley's wife she starts screaming which makes Lennie nervous. He does not know what to do so he kills her, but he did not mean to kill her. When Curley's wife starts

Everyone has had a caretaker or guardian to protect and care for them at some period in time. Developing into an adult is often times when a person becomes able to live independently. However, this is not the case for Lennie Small from the story, “Of Mice and Men” as a result of his disability. Being dependant on other people, Lennie needs a caretaker because of the lack of family to protect him. Someone without family relation, George, rises to the position as his caretaker in the harsh, unforgiving circumstances they have at the moment. Dreaming of a better future, George has to carry Lennie from job to job in order to eventually collect enough money to finally claim their land as their own. George has good, honest intentions for Lennie and only strives to give him the best conditions even if it meant he had to pull the trigger against him.

"I just done it ... took [the gun] an' ... killed him" says George on murdering Lennie (Steinbeck 107). John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men takes place at a ranch near Soledad, California during the Great Depression. George and Lennie are two migrant workers who travel together from place to place. Lennie has a mental disability and likes to pet soft objects. One day, Lennie starts to pet a woman’s hair. After the woman starts to panic, Lennie accidentally snaps her neck and kills her. George then hunts down Lennie and murders him. George murdered Lennie because Lennie didn’t wish to die.

Because Lennie is confused he grabs her hair and tries to make her stop yelling. But because Lennie does not know how to control his own strength, he squeezes Curley’s wife’s neck too hard and crushes her spine. Lennie then flees the ranch because Curley wants to kill him for what he did to his wife. So Lennie is not brutally murdered by Curley, George finds Lennie and, because he cannot get him out of trouble, shoots Lennie. Lennie’s uncontrollable strength and ignorance destroyed his, George and Candy’s dream

In my opinion, Lennie Small is the most interesting character in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck does a very good job describing and characterizing Lennie's personality. Lennie's character is, indeed, quite unique. A large man with enormous strength, yet kind and childlike, he seems to find joy in simple life pleasures like petting a furry animal and making the water ripple. Lennie's greatest difficulty seems to be remembering; and it is the lack of the ability to remember that ultimately leads to his tragedy at the end of the book. In the novel, Steinbeck seems to reinforce Lennie's characteristics of strength, kindness, childlike manner, and somewhat animal-like personality.

Curley’s Wife’s mistake in allowing Lennie to stroke her hair even though warnings were given about her from George to Lennie foreshadows her own death. "Don 't you even take a look at that b*tch. I don 't care what she says and what she does... You leave her be." (Steinbeck 16). This is another example of foreshadowing because Lennie couldn’t keep his hands off of things in the past and tells the reader that he might do something bad to her in the future. George is attempting to keep Lennie away from Curley’s Wife because he is aware of the possible consequences of their interaction, especially as Curley is the ranch boss’ son. Lennie 's accidental killing of Curley 's wife was the situation that George had been dreading from when they met her on the ranch. “She took Lennie 's hand and put it on her head. "Feel right aroun ' there an ' see how soft it is." Lennie 's big fingers fell to stroking her hair.” (Steinbeck 54). Lennie can 't keep his hands off of soft things and covers Curley’s Wife’s mouth when she yells for him to let go of her hair, strangling her by unawareness of his own strength. George

In the beginning of the novella, Lennie is portrayed as innocent and dependent on George. When Lennie had a mouse and George asked for it, Steinbeck describes Lennie’s reaction

His love of soft things instantly overwhelms the rest of his thoughts. His mental disability causes him to forget everything George taught him: about not going near her, about how she is trouble. Even though he didn’t want any trouble, her hair reminds him of the rabbits. As soon as Curley’s wife starts to get uncomfortable and asks him to stop, Lennie can’t. Curley’s wife is suddenly in horror, so she yells out for help. Upon hearing this, Lennie instantaneously cups his massive hands around her mouth and nose, knowing what consequences will follow if he gets caught in trouble again. Lennie’s childish actions causes Curley’s wife to start suffocate until he eventually breaks her neck. It takes a few moments for Lennie to react to what he has done an then he remembers whar George told him to do if he got in to trouble, “Lennie if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush” . This is the only thought he can think of at this point, so he sets out for the river.