In “Of A Mouse”, the mouse doesn’t have enough time to build another nest, so it’s probably going to die. Lennie is too strong for his own good and can’t keep from hurting other living things. He never gets his rabbits. George ends up killing Lennie because of this and his grief leaves him unhappy at the end of the book. Curley’s wife wanted to live a lifestyle where she was more respected, but her mother kept her from doing so.…
The fact that the secondary characters push the plots and main characters developments forward often makes the secondary characters more important to the story than the main ones. Think “foils”. might even call for death of second character. Of Mice and Men - Curley’s wife seeks attention so she goes to Lenny, who accidentally snaps her neck, then George ultimately has to kill him for the safety of the rest of the farm.…
Minnie is a 15-year-old girl living in the 70s with her mother, and her mother's coke-loving boyfriend. The teenager keeps a diary on her tape recorder, and she tells that diary how she's had sex for the first time. Her first lover is her mother's boyfriend. From that first encounter, Minnie finds that she enjoys experimenting with sex and the power of her attraction. She has group sex and sex with strangers.…
Some say Lennie is a monster, who kills things on purpose, others say he's just a man who doesn't do mean things for meanness, but everyone can agree that unless supervised, Lennie can be a menace. Lennie is a gentle giant, compared to a horse, dog, and bear in the book. And with his animalistic qualities, tends to hurt things and not understand the norms associated with his actions. Lennie, in a childish attempt to touch Curley's wife's hair in order to feel how soft it is, breaks her neck and kills her. Lennie didn't do it to actually hurt her.…
“Lennie pleaded, “Come on, George. Tell me. Please, George. Like…
Now You Know In the story “ of Mice and Men,” Steinbeck foreshadows many impeding events either good or bad. One event that Steinbeck foreshadows continuously is the conflict between Lennie and Curley. From chapters, one to three Lennie is described as being extremely strong.…
Lennie also accidentally kills Curley's wife. Lennie goes and hides in the bushel, but George finds Lennie and shoots him out of his misery. One of Lennie’s character traits is his child like behavior. Lennie is really innocent, unaware of things around him, and he is gullible.…
George and Lennie have to realize that they were born poor migrant workers and they might stay migrant workers for the rest of their lives. Lennie's fate of him getting killed by George was foreshadowed when he snapped the mouse's neck in his hand. When Lennie snps the mouse's neck it foreshadows Lennie's snapping Curley's wife's neck. After, Lennie kills Curley's wife he causes his own death. "…
In addition, George is constantly in conflict with Lennie about his actions and what consequences come after them. When George notices that Lennie killed Curley’s wife, the reader can see that he automatically has doubts in his dream about the ranch. When Candy sees George with Curley’s dead wife,…
Her persistent flirting and lingering around Lennie even though he expressed and warned her of the fact that she should not be there, and that he should not be talking with her, put her in a conflicting and deadly situation. Despite holding the knowledge of how strong Lennie can be, even if he does not mean to be, Curley’s wife “took Lennie’s hand and put it on her head” (Steinbeck 92) to feel how soft her hair was. Her persistence for physical contact gave Lennie a strong advantage over Curley’s wife. After Lennie had an episode while still grabbing tight onto Curley’s wife’s hair, he ended up accidentally snapping her neck and killing her. Her desperation for human contact led her to her…
In addition, George gets angry when Lennie kills small animals and threatens Lennie’s dream of tending to rabbits in the future. This leads to Lennie’s panic when Curley’s Wife starts to scream. From him panicking…
If George didn’t end up killing Lennie, other people and animals would up dying in Lennie’s hands. If he didn’t kill Lennie someone else would. Lennie ended up killing Curley’s wife trying to make her quiet, as revenge Curley wanted to end Lennie’s life. “I’m gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun..”…
The book Of Mice and Men is full of puzzling examples of the human condition, from Lennie and his mental disability to Curley’s wife messing with all of the men’s heads. With characters like these two, the book exploits the human condition that concerns circumstances life has gives you. John Steinbeck brings to life what being a laborer in the American depression meant to the men and one woman who had enough personality to stand out. George, Slim, Curley, and Lennie are all very different people with lives that make them have different views and priorities.…
From the quotes, Curley was furious that his wife died and he knows that it was Lennie did this so he really wants to kill him by himself and shot him in the guts but George told him not to shoot him because he does not know what was he doing because Lennie was dumb. George should have killed Lennie in the story “Of Mice and Men” because from the story the character “Lennie” was a troublemaker for George. He always brought troubles to George and he also has some problems with his mind so that made him act like a kid, always do thing after George and if Lennie is still alive he might hurt more people, even though they were best friend and George should not have killed Lennie because of that but someone else will kill him…
and he accidentally kills Curley’s wife. Tragically, Lennie ends up being killed at the hands of his best friend; George. Although Dr. Sacreth argues that Of Mice and Men is a tragic novel and that George and Lennie deserve better than they get, he incorrectly argues that George and Lennie led limited lives, that their dreams were unachievable and the idea that pain is beauty. Dr. Sacreth repeats in his essay the idea that George…