Misplaced Loyalty
In most relationships people promise to stay loyal to their significant other, but if that person stays loyal to an abusive relationship they will end up getting hurt both physically and emotionally. Loyalty, most often seen as a positive, can ruin someone 's life. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, takes place in the Great Depression. Along with the Great Depression came a lack of well-paying jobs which caused a great number of people to become itinerant workers. George and Lennie strive to gain money for their wanted ranch while moving from one job to another; with Lennie always getting into deep trouble at all of them. Although people don’t usually look at loyalty as a bad thing, throughout the story loyalty gets portrayed …show more content…
Throughout Of Mice and Men, George struggles to maintain a job because Lennie keeps getting into major trouble, and that causes George to have to keep finding new jobs. In this book, George talks about how Lennie makes his life awful by saying, “I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out” (page 11). When George says this, he talks about how he tries so hard to make a good living for himself and Lennie, but Lennie always ends up wrecking it. Not only does George have to move from place to place all the time, he also sacrifices a successful life for himself. George, a very intelligent man, gives up a life that could have been better by dragging Lennie along with him and taking care of him. George knows that Lennie can’t live on his own, so he protects, and becomes a friend of Lennie’s instead of forgetting about him. In addition, George has to shoot Lennie to save Lennie from future complications. George knows that Lennie can’t keep living a life where he will keep causing harm to so many people so he shoots him. Since Lennie was the cause of George having to shoot him, George will grow cruel because Lennie was the only thing keeping him from having cruelty come over him completely. As can be seen, loyalty messes up people 's lives and makes their life a much harder one to
In most relationships people promise to stay loyal to their significant other, but if that person stays loyal to an abusive relationship they will end up getting hurt both physically and emotionally. Loyalty, most often seen as a positive, can ruin someone 's life. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, takes place in the Great Depression. Along with the Great Depression came a lack of well-paying jobs which caused a great number of people to become itinerant workers. George and Lennie strive to gain money for their wanted ranch while moving from one job to another; with Lennie always getting into deep trouble at all of them. Although people don’t usually look at loyalty as a bad thing, throughout the story loyalty gets portrayed …show more content…
Throughout Of Mice and Men, George struggles to maintain a job because Lennie keeps getting into major trouble, and that causes George to have to keep finding new jobs. In this book, George talks about how Lennie makes his life awful by saying, “I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out” (page 11). When George says this, he talks about how he tries so hard to make a good living for himself and Lennie, but Lennie always ends up wrecking it. Not only does George have to move from place to place all the time, he also sacrifices a successful life for himself. George, a very intelligent man, gives up a life that could have been better by dragging Lennie along with him and taking care of him. George knows that Lennie can’t live on his own, so he protects, and becomes a friend of Lennie’s instead of forgetting about him. In addition, George has to shoot Lennie to save Lennie from future complications. George knows that Lennie can’t keep living a life where he will keep causing harm to so many people so he shoots him. Since Lennie was the cause of George having to shoot him, George will grow cruel because Lennie was the only thing keeping him from having cruelty come over him completely. As can be seen, loyalty messes up people 's lives and makes their life a much harder one to