Struggle In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men takes place in California on a barn. The main characters are George and Lennie. Lennie and George travel places together, looking for a job so they can scrape up enough money to buy their own farm. However, the only problem with this dream is Lennie. Lennie is mentally disabled and George always has trouble controlling him.Because of this, they always seem to end up getting in trouble. At the end of the story, George has to kill Lennie because Lennie accidentally kills someone on the farm. This text is very dense and has many different layers and themes. Nonetheless, there is one theme that is shown throughout the most characters, and that is that being trapped causes people to get hurt. George is trapped in his situation because of Lennie. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines being trapped means a position or situation from which it is difficult or impossible to escape. Despite both of their best efforts, Lennie always gets in trouble. This prevents George from getting a wife, or a long-term job. This for sure hurts George, as at the end of the book he is forced to kill Lennie.You can see how much George is hurting when he says, “‘Yeah, tha’s how,’ George’s voice
Lennie is trapped because of his disability, which is very unfortunate. Lennie ends up getting hurt because George shoots him. On page 106 it says, “The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled down slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.” Lennie was killed because of his disability. He didn’t try to do any of the bad things he did, but in the end he kills Curley’s Wife on accident. That is why he was trapped. George and Lennie were never going to get their dream farm because they were trapped in their situation; that led to both of them getting