Curley's Wife Foreshadowing

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“The best laid schemes of mice of men often go awry”. George and lennie go through a series of events that get them in trouble and they have to go and find somewhere else to work. Lennie gets them them in trouble three times and it causes problums with thier farm dream. The last time lennie does a bad thing he has to get shot by george and george shoots him. George shoots him so he doesn’t have to suffer by curley. Steinbeck use foreshadowing to indicate the deaths of the farm dream, curley’s wife, and lennie.

George and Lennie’s farm dream died, but George wished it never did, Steinbeck used foreshadowing to show that there farm dream died by having george knowing and getting clues that they could never have there own piece of land. George knew it would’ve never happened, but it was always his dream.
When lennie got in trouble in weed, he was holding on to a girls dress and she screamed which got him in trouble. As lennie quoted in document B, “Jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress, Jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse. When he saw her dress he wanted to pet it, so when he went to go pet her dress he grabbed on when she started screaming and he wouldn’t let go, and then they sent people after george and lennie so they had to run away. Lennie has also killed the pup that was given to him by petting it too hard. Lennie said in document B, “ why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you to hard, you wasn’t big enough’. Lennie had killed the pup when he was just petting it, he didn’t want to kill it he was just patting it and since he is a gentle giant, he didn’t know he was patting it to hard. Lennie definetly made a clew, that he was going to kill curley’s wife, because in all the other events he got in trouble in he would end up doing a bad thing, just like in weed, and just like when he killed the

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