How Does Steinbeck Use Foreshadowing?
Throughout this story there is many points or time periods that completely were foreshadowed from the very beginning. Some were small but others completely drove the plot of this story, such as the three main big events that John Steinbeck foreshadowed from almost the very beginning. They were when Curley’s wife died, when Lennie died, and finally when the farm dream started to die.
Before this whole story began Lennie and George were given a slight back story. Lennie likes to pet soft feeling things and he saw a girl's dress and reached out to touch it to feel it, he himself meant no harm he just wanted to touch it but the girl did not know this, she then started to scream and struggle and Lennie instinctively …show more content…
Lennie was always a part of this dream, he was the most excited and wanted to talk about it with George almost constantly about it but when he died is when to dream fully came to a stop. All this was foreshadowed by one little detail in this book, Candies dogs’ death. Lennie was killed by George with the same pistol the dog died by but this was not the only reason the death was foreshadowed, George and Candy had almost the same “thought” when it came to each death “’I should have do it myself.’”(Chap 3) George did not want to see Lennie suffer, and George knew that Lennie was going to die so he made it the most calm and peaceful l death that he could create for Lennie. But also hinting that the dream would not work out was Crooks completely doubting that George and Lennie would even get the land for the farm dream. Once Lennie started talking about the farm crooks replied with “’I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ the ranches, with bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads.’” He is completely saying that hundreds of men before them have failed so why would you guys
Throughout this story there is many points or time periods that completely were foreshadowed from the very beginning. Some were small but others completely drove the plot of this story, such as the three main big events that John Steinbeck foreshadowed from almost the very beginning. They were when Curley’s wife died, when Lennie died, and finally when the farm dream started to die.
Before this whole story began Lennie and George were given a slight back story. Lennie likes to pet soft feeling things and he saw a girl's dress and reached out to touch it to feel it, he himself meant no harm he just wanted to touch it but the girl did not know this, she then started to scream and struggle and Lennie instinctively …show more content…
Lennie was always a part of this dream, he was the most excited and wanted to talk about it with George almost constantly about it but when he died is when to dream fully came to a stop. All this was foreshadowed by one little detail in this book, Candies dogs’ death. Lennie was killed by George with the same pistol the dog died by but this was not the only reason the death was foreshadowed, George and Candy had almost the same “thought” when it came to each death “’I should have do it myself.’”(Chap 3) George did not want to see Lennie suffer, and George knew that Lennie was going to die so he made it the most calm and peaceful l death that he could create for Lennie. But also hinting that the dream would not work out was Crooks completely doubting that George and Lennie would even get the land for the farm dream. Once Lennie started talking about the farm crooks replied with “’I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ the ranches, with bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads.’” He is completely saying that hundreds of men before them have failed so why would you guys