Similarities Between George Milton In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Do you think you could work up the strength to take the life of another person, especially one of your own loved ones? In John Steinbecks’s novella “Of Mice and Men” well known character George Milton is forced to face this heartbreaking decision. In this novella you were taken through the lives of two best friends, Lennie Small a giant sized man with an even larger heart, who is a prisoner inside of his own body due to mental illness and his leading man George Milton a smaller built and more head strong man who takes lennie on as his own responsibility caring for him and looking out for him as if he is his own. Through the story you will see these two men taking on their journey through life with one another encountering new friends, as well as well as new struggles attempting to find success in the American dream until it is shattered by a hard decision that faces George resulting from a sequence of misfortunate events. George gets torn between giving up his best friend to be locked away, giving him up to face a hard death, or lastly to provide lennie with a more merciful death himself. At the end of the story george realizes that the best thing he can do for lennie is

He wasn’t capable of seeing how things could turn out badly so it would have been unfair for him to be punished like someone who could. For Lennie to have been given up to law and been locked away wouldn’t have been any good for him or anyone else. He would have become a prisoner to himself locked up inside his own mind scared, confused, and forced into insanity only for him to die alone in an empty room. In the book well respected character Slim says to George “...An’s s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George.”(Steinbeck 97) this helps George realize the best choice is to kill Lennie and save him the misery of being locked away and imprisoned like an