How Does George Kill Lennie's Death In Of Mice And Men

“The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again.” (Steinbeck 106). John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men is written during the great the Great Depression about two friends, George and Lennie, who have stuck together. Despite Lennie’s mental handicap, George stays with Lennie to help him out. At their newest job, Lennie ends up killing one of the workers, Curley's, wife in fear and panic. Ending in George killing Lennie. Killing is never okay but George killing Lennie was the best thing to do because if they did keep moving towns Lennie would have kept getting in trouble, George was protecting Lennie, and if George didn’t do it somebody else would have. George had become very protective of Lennie over the years. George stood up for Lennie when other guys talked bad. When one guy said, “Funny how you an’ him string along together.”
George defensively responded, “What’s funny about it?” (Steinbeck 39), this shows that he wasn’t ashamed to have Lennie with him. George was protecting Lennie when he shot him. George was protecting Lennie from the pain and terror that Curley would have caused him if Curley found him first. Not only was he protecting him from …show more content…
Curley figured it was Lennie who killed his wife and said “I’m gonna get him. I’m going for my shotgun. I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself. I’ll shoot him in the gut.” (Steinbeck 96) Curley would have made sure Lennie died and not peacefully. He would have scared Lennie and hurt him. George knew he had to find him first. Once George found him he realized there was nowhere they could go. George didn’t have much time until the other guys found Lennie too so he acted as fast as possible. George told Lennie to turn around and look at the river as George talked all about their farm and the dream, to make Lennie happy before shooting him. George made sure Lennie went peacefully and quickly without Lennie even knowing that it would