The ending of the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck aptly concludes though, not in every aspect leaving the reader to have to formulate their own answers or simply comply with the information they’re left with.
The final chapter takes place in the same location as the first chapter, the secluded little pond with the Gabilan Mountains on one side and sycamores and willows on the other. In Chapter 1, the willows are ‘fresh and green’ and animal are peacefully going about their lives but, in the final chapter, the pond is depicted in a far more somber mood, the leaves are brown, dry, and scuttling across the ground and a snake is swallowed head first by a heron. The once tranquilly depicted pond, a safe haven where George tells Lennie to hide if he gets into any more trouble, is no longer so inviting and possesses and instills in the reader an element of unease, foreboding what’s to come. This makes the death of Lennie seem prearranged, fitting, and not so abrupt.
Correspondingly, earlier in the novel, …show more content…
Not only was Lennie mentally ill and kept inadvertently killing things because he didn’t understand his own strength, his other prospects of jail or getting shot by a near stranger would not have made for an appropriately concluding work. Furthermore, George ends his and Lennie’s long standing dream of owning a ranch and fated himself to the live the typical life of a migrant worker, solitude and loneliness which Lennie and George continually pointed out was one of the things that made them different, because they had someone who cared about them; each other. Loneliness, as the reader saw from Crooks and Curely’s wife, is one of the hardest things to live with but, George gave up Lennie in hopes of quieting Lennie’s muddled mind. In consideration of all of these things, the ending of Of Mice in Men properly concludes the book and allows the reader
The final chapter takes place in the same location as the first chapter, the secluded little pond with the Gabilan Mountains on one side and sycamores and willows on the other. In Chapter 1, the willows are ‘fresh and green’ and animal are peacefully going about their lives but, in the final chapter, the pond is depicted in a far more somber mood, the leaves are brown, dry, and scuttling across the ground and a snake is swallowed head first by a heron. The once tranquilly depicted pond, a safe haven where George tells Lennie to hide if he gets into any more trouble, is no longer so inviting and possesses and instills in the reader an element of unease, foreboding what’s to come. This makes the death of Lennie seem prearranged, fitting, and not so abrupt.
Correspondingly, earlier in the novel, …show more content…
Not only was Lennie mentally ill and kept inadvertently killing things because he didn’t understand his own strength, his other prospects of jail or getting shot by a near stranger would not have made for an appropriately concluding work. Furthermore, George ends his and Lennie’s long standing dream of owning a ranch and fated himself to the live the typical life of a migrant worker, solitude and loneliness which Lennie and George continually pointed out was one of the things that made them different, because they had someone who cared about them; each other. Loneliness, as the reader saw from Crooks and Curely’s wife, is one of the hardest things to live with but, George gave up Lennie in hopes of quieting Lennie’s muddled mind. In consideration of all of these things, the ending of Of Mice in Men properly concludes the book and allows the reader