Candy's Dog In Of Mice And Men

Steinbeck helps the reader to understand that humans have a tendency to think the things that they have are permanent, and are often completely at a loss when they lose things they thought were theirs. He does this by using the unexpected deaths of Candy’s dog, the death of Lennie, and the death of Curley’s wife. The first example of this is when Steinbeck depicts the scene of the shooting of Candy’s dog. The reader can see that candy never really put much thought into the idea of his companion leaving his side, and that is what hurts him the most. The second example of this is the killing of Curley’s wife. No one expected this, not even the reader. This is an example of how instant death can be, ripping away the ones we loved and care about. The third example is the killing of Lennie. Lennie seemed to be the most innocent character in the novella. He was the child figure, but he ended up being the most dangerous.
Steinbeck helped me to understand this by depicting the scene where Carlson wants to kill Candy’s dog. In this scene, Carlson doesn’t even think twice about the idea of killing Candy’s dog, but Candy is completely shocked that anyone would want to kill his dog, the companion he cherishes so much. Carlson exclaims, “Look, …show more content…
It shows that our possessions are never actually ours, and we can loose them at any moment, and for humans that is such a difficult concept to grasp. The examples of Candy’s dog, Curley’s wife, and Lennie himself all show the unexpected events that are just simply a part of life. Nobody anticipates death, or the loss of belongings in something like a fire, tsunami, or other natural disaster. But sadly, things that we think are firmly connected to our lives are ripped away in an instant. We are often filled with grief and and sorrow, wondering what we could have done to change the outcome. When the outcome was often completely out of our