Essay On Lennie's Relationship In Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck portrays the explicitness of the relationship in the novel of mice and men between the characters Lennie and George. Although Lennie and George have grown to be depended on each other throughout the book, hardship would constantly arise due to Lennie lack of understanding. The most controversial issue in this novel was why George killed Lennie. I firmly believed it was the right thing to do because Lennie was a danger around those around him as well as himself, Lennie could not survive without George and if George didn’t kill Lennie. Curly would have. Thus, through these reasons George decisions to kill Lennie was the right thing to do.

It is evident from the beginning of the novel that Lennie was a danger around those around him as well as himself due to his lack of understanding of the society. Lennie greatest feelings of security come from petty soft things. In the first chapter, Lennie was touching a girl’s soft dress and when she tried to pull away, Lennie would not let go. When the girl
Hence if it weren’t for George, Lennie would not survive due to his lack of understanding of the society. This is the contrast to Lennie as he is practically incapable of thinking for himself provided that George needed to constantly find them food, work, housing and has to bail Lennie out of trouble. In this instance, George knew he couldn’t look after Lennie forever, so he knew the best thing to do was to execute Lennie himself.

In addition to, George knew it was the right thing to kill Lennie as if he didn’t Curly would have killed him with more pain and slowly. This is evident as Curly states that he was going to shoot Lennie in the gut so he could die slowly and painfully. Thus, this demonstrates that George intention to kill Lennie was not unacceptable, but love by sparing him that miserable fate from dying scared and