In 'Of Mice and Men ' Steinbeck presents George in a way the reader has never seen. The extract begins with George almost coaxing Lennie, telling him that "the air feels fine." Usually when ever George speaks to Lennie he is always an authoritive figure, and although George is still coaxing Lennie by comforting him, the dynamics have changed. George is no longer this angry, hostile character, but rather we find George being presented in a paternal way, allowing- for possibly the first time- the reader to feel empathy for him. The reader has to come to terms with what has been forshadowed through out the whole book, just like George in this final scene. Furthermore, when George is coaxing Lennie to his end, Steinbeck recreated the way George
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For the first time Lennie was no longer the burden the reader had become used to, but rather Lennie was unknowenly in charge of the situation. The ellipsis in George 's speach come to a hault when Lennie eagerly asks to "do it now." However, the reader is suddenly hit with a wave of sorrow when Steinbeck 's sadistic pun on "it" connects with the harsh reality of George 's steady hand. Furthermore, Steinbeck 's once beautiful, descriptive text stops, his luxurious methods of literature stops and instead the novella ends with a plague of simple sentences which will only be ended with the sibilance of Lennie 's body "settled slowly forward to the sand. Perhaps this was used by Steinbeck to manifest the evil that will always have to happen, even biblically with Adam and Eve. No one can escape it, not even George Milton, a man who had a dream, a companian, and even perhaps a bestfriend. Steinbeck perfectly unveiled the harsh realitly of life for the typical 1930 's American man through the character of George Milton, and even in the many ways this character was presented, the reader could always, in this final scene, see the love George had for
For the first time Lennie was no longer the burden the reader had become used to, but rather Lennie was unknowenly in charge of the situation. The ellipsis in George 's speach come to a hault when Lennie eagerly asks to "do it now." However, the reader is suddenly hit with a wave of sorrow when Steinbeck 's sadistic pun on "it" connects with the harsh reality of George 's steady hand. Furthermore, Steinbeck 's once beautiful, descriptive text stops, his luxurious methods of literature stops and instead the novella ends with a plague of simple sentences which will only be ended with the sibilance of Lennie 's body "settled slowly forward to the sand. Perhaps this was used by Steinbeck to manifest the evil that will always have to happen, even biblically with Adam and Eve. No one can escape it, not even George Milton, a man who had a dream, a companian, and even perhaps a bestfriend. Steinbeck perfectly unveiled the harsh realitly of life for the typical 1930 's American man through the character of George Milton, and even in the many ways this character was presented, the reader could always, in this final scene, see the love George had for