“Of Mice and Men,” written by John Steinbeck features friends George and Lennie and their journeys as migrant workers to a ranch. George is a smaller man who travels with Lennie from job to job. Lennie is a huge man with an apparent intellectual disability.
When Lennie and his companion George are walking towards a ranch as migrant workers, where they will be taking on a new job, George demands that Lennie give him the dead mouse that he had been petting for the majority of their journey. When asked by George for the mouse, Lennie argues with, “I could pet it with my thumb as we walked along” (6). Something that stood out to me about this passage was the fact that the death of the mouse wasn’t Lennie’s main focus. Instead, his main focus seemed to be more about …show more content…
Unfortunately for this puppy, this time spent together resulted in the accidental death of the puppy, caused by Lennie. He then asks the puppy “’Why do you got to be killed? … Now I won’t be able to tend the rabbits’” (85). Lennie seemed to be consumed by possible outcome of his actions, rather than the fact that he killed a baby animal. This suggests that Lennie doesn’t have any remorse for life. He’s focus upon life revolves around whether he’s getting his magical bunnies. This warped image of what life is, is what Lennie sees through his eyes. His fear of consequence, and his reliance of George, causes a warped view of life which could cause Lennie to make some irrational decision out of this apparent fear. With the puppy, his main fear with the death of the puppy was that George was going to be upset and wouldn’t let him “tend the rabbits” (85). With his limited thinking ability, Lennie is really able to only view one side of a problem. This led to Lennie’s differing view of life and influenced many of his
When Lennie and his companion George are walking towards a ranch as migrant workers, where they will be taking on a new job, George demands that Lennie give him the dead mouse that he had been petting for the majority of their journey. When asked by George for the mouse, Lennie argues with, “I could pet it with my thumb as we walked along” (6). Something that stood out to me about this passage was the fact that the death of the mouse wasn’t Lennie’s main focus. Instead, his main focus seemed to be more about …show more content…
Unfortunately for this puppy, this time spent together resulted in the accidental death of the puppy, caused by Lennie. He then asks the puppy “’Why do you got to be killed? … Now I won’t be able to tend the rabbits’” (85). Lennie seemed to be consumed by possible outcome of his actions, rather than the fact that he killed a baby animal. This suggests that Lennie doesn’t have any remorse for life. He’s focus upon life revolves around whether he’s getting his magical bunnies. This warped image of what life is, is what Lennie sees through his eyes. His fear of consequence, and his reliance of George, causes a warped view of life which could cause Lennie to make some irrational decision out of this apparent fear. With the puppy, his main fear with the death of the puppy was that George was going to be upset and wouldn’t let him “tend the rabbits” (85). With his limited thinking ability, Lennie is really able to only view one side of a problem. This led to Lennie’s differing view of life and influenced many of his