Mice and Men

Ife Oladoja

English 9

Of Mice and Men

In the Steinbeck original book “Of Mice and Men” we see two best friends struggle through bad situations trying to reach their goal but in the end they end up living with the worst possible outcome with broken hopes and promises, and fear of the future.

In the book the two main characters Lennie and George go through difficult situations only because of Lennie’ s unknowing mistakes that take them from weed, after the fake rape situation, to Salinas to work as laborers in a vegetable field. In the end after Lennie killed Curley’s wife, by mistake, and so George has to kill Lennie before the others kill him in a worse or more harmful way.

You can see in the book that they had very high hopes and goals, and that they had it all worked out of how they would get the land and tend the rabbits and have a great life compared to how they were living it then, and even candy (another character in the story) wanted to be part of it. I think what Candy really wanted was to have a place to call home or a chance to go to his home and say that he was with his family. In this book you have to remember that about all the men didn’t have real family so when you had a chance to get one you didn’t pass it up.

Many people wonder if what George did to Lennie was the proper thing to do or if it was the right thing to do since they are best friends, and even in the beginning of the book George is viewed as more of a father figure to Lennie so how could he kill this childish adult while loving him in the idea of him being his only family. To my understanding of the book I feel as what George did was very painful for him to do but it was the right thing because he did it out of love. If he didn’t love Lennie he could have left him for the others to kill him or he would let whatever happened to him just happen, but by killing Lennie in a way that left him dying with happy thoughts of what could have been with the farm and the rabbits, he...