Carlson embodies similar traits and is totally void of any compassion or sympathy for his fellow man. He is the one who fiercely pushes Candy to let him shoot Candy's dog, even though the dog is obviously the only thing that means anything in his life. At the end, after George has shot Lennie and is walking away with Slim, it is Carlson who asks Curley what he thought was "eatin' them two guys?" (Steinbeck 107). These two are bestial in their inability to empathize with anyone else, striving for nothing more than self-gratification and motivated by a sort of meanness and
Carlson embodies similar traits and is totally void of any compassion or sympathy for his fellow man. He is the one who fiercely pushes Candy to let him shoot Candy's dog, even though the dog is obviously the only thing that means anything in his life. At the end, after George has shot Lennie and is walking away with Slim, it is Carlson who asks Curley what he thought was "eatin' them two guys?" (Steinbeck 107). These two are bestial in their inability to empathize with anyone else, striving for nothing more than self-gratification and motivated by a sort of meanness and