Violence In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Violence in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Our community has rapidly increased in violence, people don't recognize it as much because of the fact that it occurs in rare situations. When people spot cruelty they run away from it. John Steinbeck, in his novel Of Mice and Men has the reader experience the violence that the characters go through, even being smaller and weaker than all.

George’s life has always been hard with trying to take care of a mentally disabled human, Lennie. He takes all of his anger out on being emotionally violent towards Lennie. Throwing a huge outbreak. It can be tough for George to live with Lennie because George can't always be composure towards him making him angry and upset. For example in chapter 1 George chucked Lennie’s mouse across the pool after that occurred Lennie grew very upset and felt useless. With that being said George can be emotionally violent towards Lennie’s well being of kindness. George has been stuck with Lennie most of his life, but eventually it has to come to a mental breakdown end, in chapter 6 George pulls the trigger on Lennie ending everything after all for

the good. He did it for Lennie’s sake. Furthermore George truly shows his violent side towards Lennie making an afterall death.
In Steinbeck’s novel he makes sure it is perfectly clear the characters violence they have towards each other. Curley, who is the boss’s son with mean spirit, is the most aggressive in this book and has a negative thought regarding Lennie, thinking he is a lot more tough and strong bad mouthing to him. Curley eventually attacks Lennie in chapter 3 and Lennie ends up breaking Curley’s wrist. After this happened Curley kept his distance from Lennie. Following that incident Curley was being very racist towards Crooks, showing his mental violent side. Curley surely knows what to say to start a fight.
On the farm most people overlook Lennie for being more unintelligent, but Lennie just happens to be one of the most violent characters in the tale. As Lennie goes about his days people don't think he is that bad till they see his dark side that he cannot control. In chapter 1 George talks about how he cannot keep small pets by reason of Lennie falling fond of the pet and ends up breaking them from the fault of not knowing his strength. Also on chapter 5, as Lennie was in the barn he managed to kill the puppy that he loved and the girl he thought was attractive. Once he realized he did that with his bare hands he was concerned he was very violent. Lennie in this book is the most violent throughout Steinbeck’s tale, Lennie may not know it but it shows his violent side often.
One character that stands out in the book is Curley’s wife.

She is lonely but a very sassy woman. Although most of the men are very rude to her she manages to pull through it and take it out on other people, being extra mentally brutal towards Crooks and Lennie. One example from chapter 4, Curley’s wife starts threatening Crooks to have him lynched. By doing this she is setting a bad example to the men that work there thinking she is uncontrollable. Since this she has been known to be very threatening and violent towards others.

Ultimately, Of Mice and Men overall was a very violent book that represented many characters that were cruel and unwanted on the farm. The author shows from the novel how many characters had physical strength that oppresses men and woman. The readers learned even at their weakest, they soul to destroy people that are

weaker.