Animals And Nature In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

People always want to know what will happen in the end, whether it is life, a movie, or in this case a book. But how do we find out what the ending is? Do we search on Google, read ahead, or do we keep reading until we get to it? Most people decide to keep reading and wait it out but we can make guesses using the author’s hints such as foreshadowing. Every author uses this in a different way to spark the reader’s thinking about what might happen. John Steinbeck does this in Of Mice and Men by using animals and nature. This is also of importance because it helps shape the story. Three examples of when Steinbeck uses animals and nature to shape the story, by using parallels and symbolism, is the brush, Lennie’s puppy, and Curley’s wife being
All Lennie wanted to do was to pet his puppy, but ended up snapping its neck when playing with it. The puppy is a parallel to Curley's wife, therefore Curley’s wife met the same fate as the puppy, including who did it. Everything Lennie did was similar from the way he killed them to the way he covered it up. Lennie said this when covering up the puppy’s death “Now maybe George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits , if he fin’s out you got killed” (Steinbeck 85). Then he said “I shouldn’t of did that. George’ll be mad” when covering up that he killed Curley’s wife (Steinbeck 92). His reactions are almost exactly the same just as what happens prior and during the killing.
The final example of symbolism is Curley's wife tempting Lennie. Many disagree with whether Curley’s wife intentions were good or not throughout the book. But during her final scene in the book, she symbolized the snake that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. For example, in the book, she says, “Feel right aroun’ there an’ see how soft it is” (Steinbeck 90). This shows that Lennie represented Eve and she was the allusion to the Biblical story character, the snake, that tempted Eve. The author does this to make a connection between the two pieces of