George would never let me tend the rabbits now, I thought to myself. I looked down at the brown an’ white pup, the one Slim gave me, and there he was lying, so lifeless. What have I done? I shouldn’t of slapped the puppy. I thought to myself. I covered the puppy with hay, but then realized that was not a smart thing to do, and uncovered it. The puppy was still very soft, I realized as I stroked it back and forth. I knew I couldn't hide this from George, he knows everything. Suddenly, I was filled with anger, Why did the puppy have to die? It was a lot bigger than a mouse… They tol’ me and I didn't listen. Now George won’t let me tend the rabbits. I rocked back and forth tryin’ to get a hold of myself. I convinced myself, or at least tried to, that this puppy di’n’t have nothin’ to do with George, an’ he has no right to not let me tend the rabbits. …show more content…
In panic, I covered the dead puppy with hay, and looked up at her, sullenly. Curley’s wife tried to convince me to talk with her, but George had told me to stay away from her. I tol’ her, “ ‘I ain’t supposed to talk ..’ ”(86). Curley’s wife suddenly asked about what I had under the hay, and I was filled with misery once again. I explained, low-spirited, how I accidently smacked the puppy when he acted as if he was going to bite me and fell dead. The thought of losing the puppy, an’ George not letting me tend no rabbits made me miserable. Curley’s wife began talking about her secrets, about how she would be married to an actor if her ol’ lady let her. She also mentioned her hate for Curley, and how she’d rather be with someone else. I sighed deeply, trying to get her stop talkin’, she is a bit of a run off at the mouth. I was planning out loud that I could throw the puppy away so George wouldn't ever find out, an’ I’ll still be able to tend the
Everything was going great at Oakville farm, I mean everything was normal and okay how it should be if you don’t count that the fact Donna came home late last night. She came home around two or three o’clock in the morning when it was pitch black outside, and believe me this isn’t the first time it ever happened either, maybe it’s not that big of a deal to you but to me it is, Donna here is the farmer’s daughter. While Mr. Salem is away she’s the one in charge of us,and because she’s the one in charge of us we haven't eaten in two days! Mr. Salem always made sure we were cared for, and was handled with love but , Donna on the other hand she just doesn’t care. There’s a lot of us here on the farm, we have a variety of animals here like horses,
There was a heavy rain outside, but other than that, the room was silent. George stared at the bunk where Lennie slept, unable to sleep. He was filled with hatred of the world that forced him to kill his own friend. As the night dragged on his hatred shifted to Curley’s wife, then Curley. “If Curley hadn’t let his tramp wife go around and cause trouble Lennie would still be here” George thought. Just then, Lennie appeared in front of him with a look of deep sadness and pain. Seeing Lennie’s pain and suffering, sent him over the edge. “That god damn Curley!” George thought, grabbing Carlson’s gun while he slept. “This is all his fault!” he thought, consumed by rage. He shuffled over to where Curley slept and pulled out the gun. George aimed the gun at Curley and pulled the trigger. An instant later he is horrified by what he has done. A couple seconds pass and Slim comes into the
Lennie dreams of living on a wide open ranch with George where he tends to the fluffy little rabbits he loves so much. Nevertheless, Lennie sadly never reaches his ultimate goal as his flaw finally becomes his fatal flaw. Lennie kills Curley 's wife by shaking her so hard that her neck breaks. He does not kill her on purpose but Lennie does not know his own strength. He is only shaking her like that because he wants her to stop yelling.
In Of MIce and Men Lennie often wants to pet nice things his favorite being a piece of velvet his aunt gave him. All throughout the story as Lennie pets the things he find soft he kills them because he doesn't realise he's petting a little too hard. “ I like to pet nice things.” (John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937) “Lennie went back and looked at the dead girl. The puppy lay close to her.” When Lennie looks back at the dead girl or Curley's wife he realizes he has done a bad thing like before with the puppy. Through the death of the puppy and the mice John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to show how Curley’s wife will die. Lennie always kills the things he pets by
“Then Curley’s rage exploded.Come on ya big bastard . Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me I’ll show ya who’s yella”.(62)Lennie was smiling and thinking about the ranch that George talked to him about and how they would make a living out of the farm. Also, he was thinking about how there would be bunnies that he could pet and feed.He was daydreaming in the worst moment. Curley thought that Lennie was smiling and laughing at him for having a “Glove fulla Vaseline”. This part of the dialogue also tells us that Curley gets frustrated or mad easily. THey say his rage exploded, he made a tiny situation into a major attention drawer. “Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys.He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys.”(26) The author describes Curley as a hatred person.He gets the wrong intention.Curley according to the passage liked to pick on others and knowing that Lennie was a sensitive fella he took advantage of that. He had fun doing this but Lennie did not get any positive output of this only negative outcomes. Curley wanted to start a fight just because he thought Lennie was laughing at him when he
I married George because I thought he was a gentleman, I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe. He is no more of value than of the ashes of the valley. The pathetic, delusional man; thinking he really can please me with stupid words. ‘I love you Myrtle. I would do anything for you, and you know that’. But we all know that words are not REALLY made of gold, don’t we?
Curley’s wife represents her broken dreams of becoming an actress. Lennie and George represent a dream in progress, it is uncertain if their plans will work out as intended or plummet before takeoff, even Crooks and Candy see the appeal in Lennie and George’s fantasy and join them. The dream in progress gives hope to Lennie and George and continued to even after losing previous jobs. Curley’s wife is constantly restricted, she married Curley so that she would no longer be alone but now is in the same state as before, just on a ranch of men. She tries to talk to the other men but she is then seen as "jail bait" and avoided, making her even lonelier. Her dream of being an actress has failed because she chose a quick way out and married Curley. She is now living in her failure and has no longer a dream to aim for. Perhaps the most important part of the story is the the part in which Lennie has accidentally killed the puppy given to him by Slim, and is grieving over him in the barn, “This ain’t no bad thing like I got to go hide in the brush. Oh! no. This ain’t. I’ll tell George I foun’ it dead.” He unburied the puppy and inspected it, and he stroked it from ears to tail. He went on sorrowfully, “But he’ll know. George always knows. He’ll say, ‘You done it. Don’t try to put nothing over on me.’ An’ he’ll say, ‘Now jus’ for that you don’t get to tend no rabbits!” (Steinbeck, 85) He feels powerless to his own strength, he believes that he will never achieve his dream because of his mistake. George and the other men are out once again and the only person who comes to his emotional aid is none other than Curley’s wife. “Don’t you worry about talkin’ to me. Listen to the guys yell out there. They got four dollars bet in that tenement. None of them ain’t gonna leave till it’s over.” “If George sees me talkin’ to you he’ll give me hell,” Lennie said cautiously.” (Steinbeck, 85) He
Lennie is a massive and powerful man, but is dull-witted, George on the other hand is scrawnier and not as mighty. Both are hearty individuals just trying to survive a tough life. After Lennie’s Aunt Clara passed away George took the responsibility of looking after Lennie. Through good and bad times George has learned to love and protect him. Lennie, an animal lover at heart always takes pleasure from petting them. He loves all small, soft, fuzzy things and cannot help himself from petting them. During their journey to the new ranch, Lennie catches a mouse, “I could pet it with my thumb while we walked along.'; (Steinbeck:6). George hates it when Lennie catches animals and plays with them “well you ain’t petting no mice while you walk with me.'; (Steinbeck:6) because he knows Lennie could end up killing the tiny animal. Lennie does not know his own strength and handles the mouse too rough “you’ve broke it pettin’ it.'; (Steinbeck:9) After the two men spend the night in the woods, they finish their journey and arrive at the ranch.
An agitated Curley got into a fight with Lennie because Lennie was laughing at how Curley couldn’t keep his wife in check. While Lennie is being beaten up by the experienced fighter that Curley is, Lennie hears George telling him to fight back so he grabs Curley’s hand and crushes it to a pulp with the ease of a knife slicing soft butter. The effortlessness by which Lennie crushes Curley’s hand is frightening and it requires the combined effort of Slim and George to pry Lennie’s hand off of Curley. George knows that this kind of strength will be a consequence of nothing positive, and the only way to prevent this is to kill Lennie. Also, while petting his pup in the barn, the pup bites Lennie because he had done something it didn’t like, this results in Lennie breaking the pups neck therefore killing it. This is another display of Lennie’s robust strength being combined with his five-year-old mentality, to produce harm to
Curley's wife wanted to go to Hollywood and be in movies. She explains saying she met a guy that said he would do that for her but he never wrote back. Curley's wife desperately wanted to feel like somebody special. She wanted to leave her little life in her small town behind. She got her dreams cut short when she caught Lennie when he killed the little puppy. Lennie said he likes to soft objects, and then Curley's wife said her hair is soft and offered Lennie to run his hands through her hair. Once it's happening Curley's wife tells Lennie to stop, but Lennie refuses to stop and violently tugs her and Curley's wife starts to scream loudly. Lennie covers her mouth with his gigantic hand and tell her to be quite, because it will cause a dilemma. Lennie's becomes angry, due to Curley's wife is not hushing down, he accidently breaks her neck causing her to die immediately. He drops her on the floor and run to the brushes George told him to run if Lennie ever got in trouble. Lennie ended her Hollywood career with a snap of the
The first description of Curley’s Wife states that she gives multiple ranch workers “the eye” despite being “married two weeks.” From this we can instantly deduce that she is somewhat of a “tart” however if we evaluate further this could explain that she is lonely and not content with her new husband. The fact that she is giving other ranch workers “the eye” despite being married makes us feel no sympathy for her and instantly portrays her as endeavouring and potentially dangerous, although, on the other hand, we can understand her restriction by Curley which makes us feel sympathy. We can get an insight into 1930s America in this passage because George declares “there’s plenty” of men that have married a tart.... ...
A dreadful thing had happened — a dog, come goodness knows whence, had appeared in the yard. It came bounding among us with a loud volley of barks, and leapt round us wagging its whole body, wild with glee at finding so many human beings together. It was a large woolly dog, half Airedale, half pariah. For a moment it pranced round us, and then, before anyone could stop it, it had made a dash for the prisoner, and jumping up tried to lick his face. Everyone stood aghast, too taken aback even to grab at the dog.
The house was in the country and Archie belonged to Amish family. While we walked up to the doorstep of the house that had Archie, my heart raced a million times per second, and I couldn’t wait! The woman in the flowered dress opened the door and lead us down stairs to pick out our new puppy. Mom grasped a fat little fellow in her hands. “This puppy is perfect!”
¡¦You can talk to people, but I can¡¦t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How¡¦d you like to not talk to anybody?¡¦ " It was hard for Curley¡¦s wife to get Lenny to talk but eventually he told her about his rabbit and other things about his life. " ¡¥We gonna have a little place-an¡¦ rabbits.¡¦ " In the end Lenny became overly excited and ended up killing Curley¡¦s wife. From this, I gathered that Lenny had never been so close to anyone, especially anyone of this opposite sex. This gave him such a great feeling that he did not know how to deal with it.
Although the couple is on a romantic vacation, George proceeds to neglect his wife. This is evident not only in his mannerisms but also in his lack of involvement in her want for the cat. When the wife says that she wants to go get the cat, George makes a poor attempt at offering to help. Unmoving and still laying in his same position on the bed, he remains focused on his book, and offers a half-hearted ?I?ll get it?(533). Since she is not looked after by her husband, she takes comfort in the fact that the innkeeper takes a liking to her and a concern to her well-being. By offering her an umbrella and his assistance ?the pardone made her feel very small and at the same time very important. She had a momentary feeling of supreme importance? (534). Often times women who are neglected need to seek outside attention, whether negative or positive. The fact that the pardone gave the American wife this feeling of importance reflects the lack of attention or even affection she receives from George. On the other hand, she can be like most women who are, in fact, attention whores. These are the typ...