John Steinbeck Foreshadowing

“The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew”, said Robert Burns, in the poem “To a Mouse”. In this book Steinbeck uses foreshadowing a lot for upcoming events that will shock you. This book is about 2 friends that have a huge farm dream and a lot of things happen in this story to make that big plan go askew. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to indicate the deaths of the farm dream, Curley’s wife dying, and Lennie.
For one, John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing by giving us huge hints about the farm dream dying. In chapter 4 on page 74 Crooks is talking to Lennie. While he is talking to Lennie, Lennie says the farm idea and talks about it. Crooks ends up saying “You’re nuts”. Men have went to that ranch to work and Crooks says that none of them had accomplished that dream and they all end up leaving. At that point it was kind of obvious that it wasn’t going to work out. Also Lennie has always costed them their jobs. George says “Lennie if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before”. Lennie has always gotten in trouble before and costed them their job in weed and if he does it again then they won’t be able to get them the money they need. This is obvious because when Steinbeck shows that he always costs them their jobs then they won’t be
Lennie loves to pet really soft things. In Doc B Lennie say “ I like to pet soft things”. This is a huge hint because Lennie loves soft things and whenever lennie gets ahold of something soft he won’t let go and he grabs tighter if they try to get away just like what he did in weed. Also Lennie did get ahold of her hair. Doc B “ Lennie’s big fingers fell to stroking her hair. Whenever Lennie gets ahold of soft things he never wants to let go and he usually kills the thing. Everything Lennie touches that is soft he won’t let go and he usually grabs tighter when the thing tries to get