Why Did George Kill Lennie

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.

Some people think that George did not do the right thing by killing Lennie because there were alternative options for shooting him. But, if George and Lennie decided to run away, they would be running their whole life, and if George decided to turn Lennie in, he

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.

George killed his best friend with nothing but sympathy and love. If George wouldn’t have killed Lennie, Curley would have in front of him. If Curley didn’t kill him he would have been put in jail or a worse place like an insane asylum. George killing Lennie was mercy killing and he did what he had to do for Lennie’s sake.

In addition, George knew he had to kill Lennie because if not he would’ve died in a traumatic way. “George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again” (pg. 105) shows that George was about to make the decision to shoot Lennie but wasn’t ready yet. To conclude, George decided to shoot Lennie and make the right choice.

In the novel, George has determined that it was time for Lennie to die and this was a just and good choose. George knew he was the one to kill Lennie because he learned from his past actions. Another reason was he knew that if he killed Lennie he would not suffer. Also, Lennie had no capability to sense reasoning like a normal individual and so he did not comprehend what he had done to Curley's wife.

First and foremost, George has to constantly continue to repeat rules to Lennie because Lennie is undisciplined. Like, after Slim gives Lennie a puppy Lennie brings the puppy into the bunkhouse with him even though George told him he was not supposed to. For example, after Lennie comes into the bunkhouse John Steinbeck writes that George " reached down and picked up the tiny puppy from where Lennie had been concealing it against his stomach." (Steinbeck) In this quote it shows that Lennie disobeyed the rules that George has set with him so he could get the puppy this means that Lennie is undisciplined because he broke the rules even though he knew that there were specific rules that were not supposed to be broken. consequently, George has to repeat himself many times and treat Lennie like a child by fixing the things that Lennie messes up and disobeyes the rules. So George was justified in his decision to kill

Lennie was going to die, there was no way around it. “”I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself”” (Steinbeck 96). George did not want the other men to kill him. Therefore, killing Lennie was the most humane thing for him to do. He also knew it was just

“At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life” (Anonymous). Killing Lennie at the end of the book was probably the hardest decision that George has made and will ever have to make. But, Lennie was one of those exceptions that was better off living without, while instead living with a memory of him. George realized this and made the decision to kill Lennie himself. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George made the right decision to kill Lennie because more people would’ve been harmed, other people wanted him dead, and George could be much more successful without Lennie holding him back.

He calmed Lennie down, reminded them of their dream, and shot Lennie where it wouldn’t hurt. It was a quick and painless death, for Lennie. But George will forever be traumatized at the loss of his best friend. In the end, George knew that Lennie couldn’t handle his own strength, and would always run into trouble. All he wanted was to prevent Lennie from suffering anymore, so he chose to take Lennie’s life for himself.

The decision of killing should not be looked upon as criminal. George does not have a cruel heart nor does he take pleasure in killing Lennie. George wants what is best for Lennie and he takes the time to set up a nice, peaceful conversation on a topic of interest to Lennie. He instructs Lennie to ?look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place? (106). He reassures Lennie that everyone will treat him pleasingly.

George loves to talk to Lennie about their dream ranch and how they are going to work for it. Both Lennie and George love to have each other, but later in the book George loses Lennie, he loses him by killing him. George says “guys like us are the loneliest people in the world but with us it aint like that”(32). This maybe could have explained why George had to kill him, because of how he felt about him and thought what was best for the both of them. Later in the book George does kill Lennie, he had to kill him because it was best for him in that situation, Lennie knew that he would think about it his whole life killing his best friend, his only best friend on the

It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt at this point, Lennie's innocence is not very accepted with the world because of his size, age, etc. He can’t really learn to change his ways due to his disabilities. Lennie can’t even understand why the bad things he has done are bad. Also, the fate he would meet at Curley's mutilated hands is enough to convince George that his only real option is to make Lennie's death as quick and painless as possible. Lennie would have died at the hands of Curly anyways, which would have been a much more painful and dehumanizing death for Lennie. He couldn't be taken to a mental hospital and in the depression, these were basically non-existent and spending a life in jail would be even more torture for a mentally ill person than death itself. George did what was right because he prevented Lennie from doing anything this terrible again, he stopped Lennie from a more painful death, and he really didn't have any other responsible

In Of Mice and Men, George was right to kill Lennie. In the novel, Lennie killed a mouse, a puppy, and a woman. Lennie could have been charged with rape on two separate occasions. In Weed, Lennie grabbed a woman and ripped a part of her clothes off. At the farm, in the barn, Lennie stroked her hair and accidentally killed her. George killed Lennie, because Candy told George he wished he would have shot his own dog, Lennie killed Curley’s wife, the puppie, and the mouse, and the lynch mob would have done worse things to Lennie.

George promises Lennie many things once they get their own farm, “’O.K. Someday- we’re gonna get the jack together… ‘Specially if you remember as good as that.’”(15-16). So George killing Lennie was for his own benefit and it was a very immoral thing to do.