Gosh I really hate being stuck inside this stupid small house all alone all day long. It’s always so boring and I have nothing to. I wish Curley would just let me go outside and talk to the other guys here. What does he think I’m going to do? Cheat on him? Thats crazy. I mean yea I flirt with the other guys, and I dress kind of inappropriately. But I mean beauty is my only power here and I flirt just to annoy Curley because he don't ever do anything for me. The only thing he ever did for me was keep a glove full of Vaseline on his hand to ‘keep it soft for me’. “What do you think, Slim?” “I think that he doesn’t deserve you”. He stared back at me with those eyes that will stick with you way after the conversation is over. “Well I wish I just became a movie star with all the money, and the fame, …show more content…
There sat Lennie trying to cover up something when he saw me. I really wanted to just talk to Lennie, but George was always telling him to stay away from me and don't talk at all. I asked what Lennie had covered up and he uncovered a dead puppy. I was so shocked. He tried to explain himself but I just told him it was all okay. All he could worry about was not being able to tend the rabbits. He kept saying that George would get mad at him if he say him talking to me. I started to get angry. I mean, what is so wrong with me that nobody will talk to me. I calmed down and asked him why he wanted to tend the rabbits so much. He just said he liked to touch things. Weird thing he is. I let him touch my hair because it is indeed very soft. Then he started to mess my hair up so I asked him to stop, but he wouldn't let go. I stared to get scared. He just wouldn't let go. I screamed. Then he covered my mouth and nose. I could not breathe. He looked so scared also. He was shaking me and would not let go. Next thing I know he flipped me so hard that everything went black. Lennie had killed
George and Lennie were lifelong friends and had varying personalities even from the start. Lennie thought about how his Aunt Clara said he should have been more like George. At the time when the story took place, the two men were travelling together, and had been for some time, working and then moving on to search for the next job they could find. They were like many other men in search for work, except it was rare for men to travel together. George felt a need to take care of Lennie because he was somewhat slow. George was an average man of the time. He was a good size, nice, but firm, and he had aspirations to be more than just a nomadic laborer. Lennie, on the other hand, had always been a little different. He was big, goofy, clumsy, but sweet. They were also both good workers. George was concerned with working and getting his money before they got into trouble and had to leave camp. Lennie was the one who normally started the trouble. He was a hard worker and lived to appease George, but he got distracted easily which angered George. George told about how they would own a house and a farm together and work for themselves. Lennie loved to hear the story and think about the possibilities, even though nobody knew if any of it was a possibility. George and Lennie's differences in part led to George's inclination to kill Lennie. Despite their dissimilarity, the two men needed each other probably more than they realized.
From the introduction it seems that Lennie is more excited than George about the vision. George is easily unhappy about “them rabbits” (Page 5) it makes you think the George thinks this whole dream is a foolish idea. This will get more difficult as we get to understand that George might actually be as thrilled about the dream as Lennie is; it seems George is actually more vigilant about his eagerness, given that he is more mature and weary of things than his friend. The last paragraph of the book explores a deep friendship that has not been revealed in the novella, this part of the book also brings emotions for the characters and even the readers. In the last few pages of the novella you start to release the dream actually doesn’t become a reality as sadly Lennie will be shot by George. “I thought you were mad at me George.” (Page 120) “No, Lennie. I ain’t mad. I never been mad an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know.” (Page 120) George knows that the only way to make Lennie happy before he gets shot is to retell the dream about tending the rabbits and also telling him
“I shouldn't of did that. George’ll be mad. An’ . . . . he said . . . . an’ hide in the brush till he come. He’s gonna be mad. In the brush till he come. That's what he said.” Lennie went back and looked at the dead girl. The puppy lay close to her.” Page 45. George has to decide on what to do. In that moment he decides that the best decision is to kill him and he does. In the book it said, “The voices came close now. george raised the gun and listened to the voices.” He didn't want Curley to get to him and make him suffer so he readied himself to shoot Lennie. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie's head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” “Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.” Page 52. they were so close to there dreams but in the end they didn't make it. but the stories shows that have a hope and dream drives you to do what most
‘Of Mice and Men’, a novel by John Steinbeck, tells a story of friendship, loneliness and aspirations. Two itinerants named George and Lennie go to work on a farm as labourers in a place named Soledad. The story then ends when George takes Lennie’s life. Almost everyone on the farm is lonely and the person that represents this the most is Curley’s (the boss’s son) wife, one of the most pivotal characters in the book. When Lennie and George arrive on the farm and are shown their quarters Curley’s wife, on one of her ‘looking for Curley’ routines, sees them both and immediately starts flirting with them. George gets angry when Lennie takes a shine to her and tell him to stay away and calls her a ‘bitch’ and a ‘rat-trap’ This view is also held by many of the workers on the farm. Curley instantly takes a dislike to Lennie when he firsts meets him just because he his much considerably larger that himself. This attitude towards Lennie results in him getting into a fight with him but he loses when Lennie crushes his hand with his own fist. Curley’s wife knows Lennie did this even though Curly was told to say he had caught his hand in a machine. Curley’s wife pursuit of company leads her to seek solace with Lennie. She pours out her pent up frustration of her unrealised dreams and ambitions. When she realises Lennie isn’t taking much interest she lets him feel her hair. Lennie being Lennie strokes harder and harder even though Curley’s wife begs him to stop. As she struggled to get out of his grasp he accidentally broke her neck. Lennie then ran off to his hiding place where he was told to go if he ever did a ‘bad thing.’ When Curley discovers his wife’s body he runs after Lennie with a mob including George. This leads to George pulling a trigger on Lennie.
In conclusion, George killing Lennie was a murder because of lack of consent and Lennie was not suffering physically. In this society, people are scared of the unknown, and that is how they lived. No one realized what they were doing was wrong. But Lennie was just like everyone else, only different because of a small, mental setback. The characters did not seem to realize that Lennie believed in a future ahead of him, and that he had hopes and dreams just like them. Life is incredibly short, and no one should deserve
Of Mice and Men Quarterly Measurement Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck that describes the journey of George, and his mentally disabled friend, Lennie, as they travel and work together on a ranch in California. The story of Of Mice and Men accounts for the experience of George and Lennie as they encounter different people on the ranch who live in solitude, such as Crooks, the negro stable buck, and the wife of the boss’s son, Curley. Crooks the stable buck is always alone because he is black, and during the time period of which the novel takes place, people with colored skin were discriminated and excluded from white social activities. Curley’s wife is alone most of the time because most of the men on the ranch stay away from her because they don’t want to get in trouble with Curley and because Curley doesn't pay attention to her. The loneliness that these characters experience impacts their personalities and actions in such a way that these characters are misunderstood most of the time.
potential threat to the two men. George sees her as 'poison' and 'jailbait'. He is angry
The theme of loneliness is important to the meaning of Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, and the side characters of the novella feel loneliness just as much as the main characters. Crooks has been lonely for a long time, and his secluded nature starts to show. Curley’s Wife is lonely as well because of her feminine nature and marriage with Curley. Loneliness is also evident in Candy, and just as he thinks he has found a home, all his hope of companionship is ripped away. Crooks, Curley’s Wife, and Candy are not like the other characters of this book. All three of them have some feature that sets them apart from the others. Crooks is African American, Curley’s Wife is a woman, and Candy lost his hand. These traits have separated these characters
Lennie accidentally killing all of his pets establishes that the theme of this novel is death and loss. These pets consist of mice, dogs, kittens, etc. Lennie loves to feel and pet animals, but he does not know his own strength. He kills them without really noticing what he has done, until George tells him that he did something wrong. After being scolded, Lennie is very remorseful about what he did. Once, after being yelled at Lennie says, “I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead- because they were so little (13).” Lennie’s remorse is probably more for upsetting George than it is for actually killing the animal.
Curley’s Wife is no exception to this belief of Steinbeck’s. Always wanting to be an actress since a young age, her dreams have been shut down on multiple occasions, mainly by her mother. “I met one of the actors. He says I could go with the show. But my ol’ lady wouldn’ let me. She says because I was on’y fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I’d went, I wouldn’t be livin’ like this, you bet.” -(Pg. 88). Being a hopeless dreamer, Curley’s wife dreams of a better life, a life where she weren’t lonely and despised by the men of the ranch. Even with her being married, it made no difference. Curley didn’t provide any love or affection to his wife. Unfortunately her loneliness is was lead Curley’s wife to her demise. All she wanted was a friend, and in the end, she never got one.
Today something happened which was very shocking, but I had a feeling that something similar to this would happen in the near future. I’d rather not write this down, because I’m mad and ashamed at the same time, not surprisingly I’m also afraid that this will affect me too. See, Lennie killed Curley’s wife. He did it, damnit. I was just doin’ my stuff, when suddenly Candy was shouting my name, because he found something, this appeared to be the dead body of Curley’s wife. From that moment on, I knew that Lennie was behind this. I know he did not do this in meanness.
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.
The american dream is different for others. If there were no american dream people wouldn't try to achieve a goal. The american dreams has power to make people try to achieve something in life. Society seems to have forgotten that in many respects, the pursuit is the happiness which means that happiness and security should not be granted at birth.
Lennie’s innocent intentions finally got him into some real trouble this time. Lennie accidentally killed Curley’s wife. Curley put out a death threat for whoever that had killed his wife, and George knew that he meant it. George knew that Lennie’s intentions were innocent, and he also knew that Curley would hurt Lennie terribly. George knew that he had to protect Lennie, so he shot Lennie in the back of his head. George did not want to kill Lennie, but he thought he had to in order to keep Curley from hurting
Women have been discriminated at being equal as men. Before World War 2 women weren’t treated the same as men in a working matter, but when it begun and all the men enlisted to go fight women would prove themselves. Mice and Men is set before World War 2 when women discrimination was common, Curly’s wife is the only one in the book that can relate to this.