Reasons Why George Should Have Shot Lennie I am arguing that George should have killed Lennie in the book Of Mice of Men written by John Steinbeck. The first reason would be the incident in Weed. “You get in trouble. You do bad things” (Steinbeck 11). Just because Lennie didn’t know what he was doing, he still did something bad that led them to have to skip town. Another reason is Lennie would’ve been tortured anyway. Curley said he was going to hunt him down because he killed Curley’s wife. “He looked down at her, and carefully he removed his hand from over her mouth” (Steinbeck 23). He killed Curley’s wife and George knew that Curley wasn’t going to handle it very well and knew he was going to torture him or something. But an argument for
