Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In of Mice and Men, which is written by John Steinbeck, has many themes in which it explains in great detail but, we are going to talk about the topic of friendship. Friendship is shown throughout the story mostly in the area of mercy killing, which is when someone kills someone out of mercy from getting a brutal, tortuous death that was inevitable therefore wanting them to choose a path that is the lesser of two evils. There are multiple examples of this but there are two very good ones that I want to point out.
One of these examples is the one when they killed Candy’s old dog because, Candy’s dog was suffering from Arthritis, stunk like a dozen skunks, was nearly blind, and could barely hear. In the story it even said that the dog’s arthritis was so bad it couldn’t even sit down, how it had no quality of life, and was suspected of having excretory problems. Though Candy was peer pressured in order to kill his dog he did it with remorse. Candy and his dog often spent a lot of time together and have grown an emotional bond. This bond was so strong that even though the dog couldn’t move very easily without having an extreme amount of pain and suffering, he still followed Candy into the farmhouse where it was stunk up …show more content…
He also followed Candy around the farm all day due to having a strong mutual bod with each other. This condition was the only one the farmhands could experience without knowing how bad his condition actually was. Even though this mercy