Importance Of Actions In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Many people say that George’s murderous actions in the end of the book, Of Mice and Men, could have been avoided. However, George’s actions couldn’t have been avoided for several reasons. For example, Lennie would just keep making the same mistakes and keep ruining their chances of obtaining their dream. Curly also told George to follow and didn’t allow George to go find Lennie to help him. Also, Lennie’s jail experience wouldn’t be a good one. George, also, doesn’t murder Lennie with hate. These are some of the reasons that George’s murder couldn’t have been avoided.

To further explain, George’s actions couldn’t have been changed due to the fact that Lennie would just do it again, Curly didn’t allow George to stay behind, jail wouldn’t be pleasant for Lennie, George doesn’t kill Lennie out of hate for what he did. To begin, Lennie would unwillingly just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. For example, Lennie touched the girl’s dress in Weed and now he killed Curley’s wife. In the book it states, “Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever’thing he likes.”(Steinbeck 41) This quotation shows that no matter how many times they run away to another job Lennie will just keep making mistakes. This also shows that he won’t learn that touching nice things
This prevents George from getting to Lennie to save him from his mistake. For example, in the book it states, “[Curly] turned suspiciously on George. ‘You're comin’ with us, fella.’”(Steinbeck 98) This quotation proves that Curly held George back from getting to help Lennie. George even makes the attempt to trick Curly and the ranchers into going the other way. For example, in the book George states, “‘We come from the north so he would of went south.’” (Steinbeck 97) This quotation proves that even if George tried every trick in the book he wouldn't be able to stop the ranchers from finding and killing