After Lennie killed Curley's wife, the other guys had their mind set on killing Lennie for what he had done, but George decided he should do it himself so it wouldn't hurt him as bad as knowing that he let other people do barely know Lennie, do it. Even though George knew he was better off without Lennie in his life he's even told Lennie “I could be living so good without you getting me in trouble and outta a job” (Steinbeck). Honestly George knows he’d be better off in his life without Lennie,but he doesn't want to leave Lennie because he knows he would be alone and put in place for the mentally impaired people. Although, George wants to keep one job and possible get a wife and have some children, but he can't do that because of Lennie and his way of not being able to keep a job.…
Second of all, Lennie became a big danger for himself and for the society, everything that Lennie was touching he finished by killing, like his puppy, Curley wife’s esc., George know that Lennie was unproductive and he couldn’t protect Lennie for all his trouble that he would start in the future so George decide to kill Lennie without…
Constantly, through the book Lennie is always bugging george to tell him about their dream about owning their own ranch and owning a place where they are able to tend rabbits. " An' rabbits," Lennie said eagerly. "An' I'd take care of 'em. Tell how I'd do that, George" (58), his eagerness can really show how much the idea of caring for the rabbits motivates him. When Lennie was a young boy he had always enjoyed playing and petting his mice that his aunt clara gave him.…
Sometimes Lennie may get on his nerves but George has always been there for Lennie and Lennie knows that. Lennie looks to George, to his permission, to his actions because he can trust…
He knew that Lennie would have been beaten or brutally killed. Ending someone's life is never a good thing, but Lennie would have continued to hurt others. George was expressing his feelings and showed that he cared deeply for Lennie. In chapter 6 George says ¨ We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.¨ (Steinbeck, 1937,…
Throughout the book readers often wonder why George stays with Lennie when he cause him so many…
To calm Lennie down, George talks about the dream about the ranch and the rabbits they had. “Lennie begged, “ Le’s do it now. Le’s get that place now.” “Sure right now.…
George and Lennie’s Relationship George and Lennie shared a fairly strong friendship, but the relationship that they had was not one that friends should have. Because of Lennie’s disability, George could not always treat him as a friend, but sometimes more as a child. The first moment in the book that we can start to see that George feels responsible for Lennie was after they had run away from Weed, and were hiding in the woods. This was when George was starting to get very angry and scream at Lennie, he said “An’ what I got, I got you!” (11) This quote shows that George feels as if his life could be so much better and easier without Lennie, but he has to keep Lennie with him, because he feels responsible for him.…
George the Culprit In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a scene occurs where Lennie, unintentionally, kills Curley’s wife. George is the most responsible for the death of Curley’s Wife because he is Lennie’s caretaker and has conditioned Lennie to hide his actions. As Lennie’s caretaker, George should be watching him vigilantly and stop him from doing anything harmful to anything or anyone. George is responsible for Lennie’s actions because, by leaving Lennie, he allowed for a series of events to occur that led to Curley’s Wife’s death.…
When George was younger he told Lennie to jump into a river which almost killed Lennie because he does not know how to swim. After George got Lennie out all Lennie could do was thank George for saving his life, completely forgetting about the fact that George was the reason he jumped in. From that alone the reader would assume George is immature, using Lennie, and rude. George grew up, he stopped using Lennie for entertainment. George now sacrifices everything he has to take care of Lennie.…
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck both demonstrate the process to move towards a dream the characters want. Gatsby had become rich and famous for Daisy. George and Lennie both strive to get their own land and have the rabbits. Fitzgerald and Steinbeck use their novels to say that in order to achieve a dream, it’s necessary to have a companion.…
In the end George comforted Lennie, told him their story again so the last thoughts Lennie had were happy ones. If George hadn’t killed Lennie he would’ve regretted it the rest of his life and betrayed not only himself but Lennie as well. Georges promise was to protect and care for Lennie, and he did that better than anyone else could have. Killing Lennie was the right thing to…
George didn’t want to disappoint Lennie when they don’t get the rabbit farm that he wanted so badly and ended up killing someone for…
I think that there was no time to go hide and escape so Lennie could have suffered. Have you ever seen those commercials about how owners and dog pounds have to put down animals? Imagine it like this Lennie is an animal, he’s getting sick and ill and too old there wasn’t a reason to let him suffer. What if George did tell him to leave, go find a cave and disappear? How would you feel if your best friend you’d known for several years said that to you and didn’t want anything to do with you?…
Ever thought about what it would be like to have a dream and because of the way people look at you and the time period that you're in, you wouldn’t be able to reach that goal? Well in the story Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the characters Lennie Small and George have an “American Dream” which they both want to go to the same place but for different reasons. The topics of why Lennie, and George want to go to this place will be analysed in the following.…