How Does Steinbeck Present Lennie's Intentions In Of Mice And Men

George always knows. He’ say,you done it. Don’t you try to put nothing over me! An’ he’ll say,’now just’ for that you don't get to tend no rabbits(83).” Lennie got afraid since he did something bad because George will just take away more power and

George even states in the beginning of the story, “ God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy”, but later tells Lennie, “I want you to stay with me” (11-13). George doesn't want Lennie there and would rather be alone-- living for himself, but he knows he needs to keep Lennie by his side because they are best friends and can’t live without each

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The book is about Lennie and George running away from Weed and working in another Ranch in California. The two of them dream about getting their own ranch and being able to make the rules and become happy for the rest of their lives. However, Lennie is a strong character who is very uneducated and gets him and George into lots of trouble. Lennie often makes mistakes that cause consequences that hurt him.

Which means Lennie hurts animals and other people without meaning to. On their way to the bunkhouse, Lennie keeps petting a dead mouse in his pocket, when George says “you've broke it pettin' it.” (Steinbeck 9). Killing a little mouse by petting it is a splendid case that displays that Lennie has jurisdiction over his strength. Lennie was “gently” petting the mouse and snapped the little mouse's neck, Ironically Lennie adores soft furred creatures.

In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck utilizes Lennie’s mental disability to demonstrate that his dream of a farm will be a place of acceptance for Lennie. Lennie is not accepted into society due to his mental disorder. When George tells the charming story of the dream, Lennie adds, “An’ rabbits, George” (Steinbeck 3.57). Lennie is insistent on including the rabbits because he is the rabbits.

George went ahead of them and talked to Lennie about their dream ranch and killed him by shooting him in the back of the head so his last few moments would be peaceful and happy. I think he made the right decision because Lennie otherwise would’ve been afraid in his last moments, George didn’t have to deal with the fact that someone else killed Lennie, and Lennie was dangerous to himself and to others. I don’t think I could kill my friend but, I think it was good that George did because he gave Lennie those last few moments in color. He was happy thinking about tending the rabbits on their dream ranch.

George makes the correct decision in shooting Lennie because Lennie is happy when he dies instead of being afraid and in pain as he would be if he had died another way. George has to kill or turn in Lennie because Lennie committed murder and George has the responsibility to deal with him. George deserves freedom from Lennie’s mistakes and by killing Lennie, he receives that liberty. Lennie is not a bad person. He has a good heart and does not mean to do the bad things he does.

George protects Lennie in many ways within the book. At the end of the book, Lennie committed a serious act which could jeopardize him and George's’ dream of a farm. George had told Lennie to go to and hide in the brush if he’s in trouble. George met him there alone and shot him. George shot Lennie

”(72) he can’t believe that something like that would happen to George that will leave him alone. After George had scolded him had replies ”If you don 't want me I can go off an’ find a cave. I can go away any time”(13). He requests that it would better off for George and everyone else if he is alone, even though he wants someone to talk to and be with. None of the other people really like Lennie on the farm and especially when the climax of the story happened he was dreadfully hated.

George consciously makes the decision to place the focus of Lennie’s mind on thing that Lennie desired most. George placed Lennie’s mind on the farm with the trees, the field of alfalfa, and most importantly the rabbits that Lennie would tend to. Lennie mentions numerous times, “I get to tend to the rabbits,” this dream of Lennie’s is the only thing that Lennie truly enjoys. George allows Lennie to relish in this dream one last time to let him enjoy his last moments of his life. When George and Lennie are still talking before Lennie is killed, Lennie says, “le’s do it now.

Lennie also does nothing to demonstrate George can depend on him, shown by the line given to us immediately after George’s line, “For a moment Lennie lay quiet, and then he said hopefully, ‘We gonna work on a ranch, George’” (Steinback 9). Constantly having someone rely on you while not receiving any stability back is immensely draining. This has led George to take on a more serious, and aggressive nature, not being able to let himself be carefree and loose. His desire for Lennie has also led him to feel as if he needed to kill Lennie himself, gaining the burden of murdering a close

After Lennie accidentally kills the wife of a farmer working on the ranch with him, he flees to a nearby pond; a place George told him to go if he were to get into trouble. George, knowing the ranchers would shoot Lennie in the best-case scenario and lynch him in the worst, George meets him before they arrive, and he shoots Lennie himself. George, while believing his actions to be merciful, had many viable alternatives that would not have led to bloodshed. The simplest and most effective would have been to simply lead the ranchers away from Lennie, as George was the only other person who knew where Lennie was. Had he done so, Lennie would have been in no danger at all, thus there would be no need to kill him.

George tries to defend Lennie after the rest of the ranch workers find out what he has done to Curley’s wife. He explains that Lennie cannot help getting himself into dreadful situations, but he has never done them on purpose. This quote ultimately proves that

When Wrong is Right At the end of “Of Mice and Men” George is faced with grim decision of shooting his best friend and family member Lennie to ease both of their future pains. George has known Lennie for mostly all of his life and he knew that when Lennie was dead their dream of having a house would be over. George then makes up his mind and shoots Lennie making him think if it was the right decision or it was wrong. In this case the decision was right because of many reasons with one being that Lennie would never be able to survive in the world that they live in.

This is what the mice really represent in this book. Something “nice” that Lennie wants. Mice. Except, they always get killed. Which leaves Lennie unhappy.