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In the case of Of Mice and Men, there are many choices that the characters have made. Resulting in either pleasant or unpleasant circumstances. George chooses to look after Lennie after his Aunt Clara dies. George is often seen getting angry at Lennie as shown in this quote from the novella:
“Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’ mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all.” “An’ whatta I got? 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.” (Of Mice and Men George-Chapter 1, Steinbeck)
He seems to act in a naïve manner towards Lennie some times. But the rest of the time he respects Lennie and understands him, guiding him in the way a father would guide a …show more content…
He does not know what he is really doing until it is done.
Is Of Mice and Men a story about choice or fate? We can never really and truly decide because it is made up of a little bit of both.
As mentioned before, our life’s destiny is predetermined for us, but based on the choices we make; we choose the path to take to meet that destiny.
George chose to go to the ranch, and that is where a great amount of Lennie’s misfortunes were encountered, yet even if George had gone to a different town, we can assume that Lennie would still have done something bad enough to get himself killed.
Slim, a worker on the ranch chooses to give Lennie the puppy which led to Lennie being in the barn, at the time when Curley’s wife was killed. But would he have snuck into the barn anyway to pet the puppies?
One of the most puzzling questions we can ask ourselves is, did George choose to kill Lennie or was that fate? George knew that Lennie would either get killed by Curley, in a horrible way or he would have been taken to court and put into prison. This would have put in Lennie utmost despair because George would not have been there with him to explain to him what was happening and why. Georges only other option would have been to kill Lennie himself. If he had only prevented all of these threats from happening then it would just be putting off the obvious fact that Lennie was dangerous, and he might have killed more
“Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’ mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all.” “An’ whatta I got? 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.” (Of Mice and Men George-Chapter 1, Steinbeck)
He seems to act in a naïve manner towards Lennie some times. But the rest of the time he respects Lennie and understands him, guiding him in the way a father would guide a …show more content…
He does not know what he is really doing until it is done.
Is Of Mice and Men a story about choice or fate? We can never really and truly decide because it is made up of a little bit of both.
As mentioned before, our life’s destiny is predetermined for us, but based on the choices we make; we choose the path to take to meet that destiny.
George chose to go to the ranch, and that is where a great amount of Lennie’s misfortunes were encountered, yet even if George had gone to a different town, we can assume that Lennie would still have done something bad enough to get himself killed.
Slim, a worker on the ranch chooses to give Lennie the puppy which led to Lennie being in the barn, at the time when Curley’s wife was killed. But would he have snuck into the barn anyway to pet the puppies?
One of the most puzzling questions we can ask ourselves is, did George choose to kill Lennie or was that fate? George knew that Lennie would either get killed by Curley, in a horrible way or he would have been taken to court and put into prison. This would have put in Lennie utmost despair because George would not have been there with him to explain to him what was happening and why. Georges only other option would have been to kill Lennie himself. If he had only prevented all of these threats from happening then it would just be putting off the obvious fact that Lennie was dangerous, and he might have killed more