Society has always taken it’s toll on us, influencing our choices, ideals, goals, and personality. Society subjects us to ordeals we must overcome to grow as a person. In John Steinbecks novella Of Mice and Men, the the current American society acts as the antagonist to the characters throughout the novella,exerting them to clashs of will. At first glance we can percieve Candy as perfectly fine. He has a stable job, a faithful companion, and a place to call home. However it is not until the startling decison to put Candy’s dear dog down that reality kicks in. Candy then starts realizing that like his dog he himself has seemed to have lived beyond his usefullness . “When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.”(#60) His fears
“(Candy) said miserably, “You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothin like that. I won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs.”’
Candy states and apologizes that he does not smell the dog because he is probably just used to the smell. Carlson does not want to deal with the smell of the dog any longer therefore he wants Candy to shoot his dog. The dog is out casted for smelling too much which he cannot
Have you ever read the novel Of Mice and Men? In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck George and Lennie wanted to live in the American Dream, but Lennie kept getting into trouble, so George had to make a decision about how to make Lennie stop getting in trouble. George made the right decision to kill Lennie, so Lennie wouldn’t get into anymore trouble. George made the right choice because it let Lennie go through a painless death, it stop Lennie from making more mistakes, and Lennie can now live in the American Dream like he always wanted in heaven.
Of Mice And Men Have you ever had to do something that you didn't want to really do? In the book Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck George Milton faces many problems with his mentally disabled partner Lennie Small. George and Lennie want to make some money working on a ranch and then buy a little farm house and some livestock to live off of. But, George and Lennie face the problem of Lennie always getting in trouble. So George then has to make the a really hard decision.
Of Mice and Men use conflict to display external conflict within Curley and Lennie. After all George and Lennie had been through a new problem shows up when they appear at the ranch. When they meet Curley automatically does not like Leenie considering Curley does not at all admire huge men. Shortly into the story Curley gets outraged with Lennie and starts a fight. During the fight, George says, “‘Get him Lennie’....
It is important to make good decisions when in a problem. If someone is struggling to make a decision they should analyze their reasons and the outcomes of each option. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a character named george has to make a tough decision that could affect his future. George was a worker during the Great Depression times in America and had a close friend names Lenny. Lenny was slow minded, but very strong physically.
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck takes place in the state of California. The story tells about the journey of two migrant workers named George and Lennie. At the end of the story, George is faced with a very difficult decision. George ends up doing what he thinks is the correct choice, which leads to the death of his best friend, Lennie.
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” says Abraham Lincoln. I personally agree with this idea, for many reasons which include the following. The first reason I agree with this idea, because it shows in Of Mice and Men, when Curley's wife knows she has power so, she presents her real character by using racism on Crooks, calling Candy old, and calling Lenny stupid. Without power she would be absent, fearful, and desperate, which would tuck away her real character. The second reason I agree with this belief, is that I have even experienced this with my siblings.
Steinbeck once again returns to his biological perception of the human. “The attack on us set in motion the most powerful species drive we know - that of survival” (Steinbeck). “By attacking us, they destroyed their greatest ally, our sluggishness, our selfishness, and our disunity” (Steinbeck). Steinbeck alludes self-critically to the American maneuvering and indifference during the first two years of WWII.
Candy owned an old dog; the dog represented many memories of the past life before things went downhill for him. Candy knows that one day be cut off from working on the ranch and will not be able to find work. When that day comes, he does not
As society has become an integral part of the world’s culture, the opinions and misconceptions of others have dominated the way people live. Throughout history, certain groups and ideas have been suppressed by the ones in charge. These actions have sprouted an almost universal indifference to those deemed less than ideal, and therefore created a divide in the way society sees race, age groups and even gender. Coupled with the Great Depression, these beliefs are the driving force for the majority of problems individuals experience in the text. In the novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the device of conflict to portray the external struggles of characters living in the era of the Great Depression.
Have you ever not been able to pick a restaurant to eat at, a shirt to wear, a food to eat, or a game to play? Well, it's safe to say that all of us have experienced a situation similar to one of these in which we have to make a decision between 2 appealing choices. This conflict is named internal conflict because it occurs when people fight themselves. Throughout John Steinbeck’s, Of Mice and Men, George Milton endures an internal conflict when having to decide between looking after his friend, Lennie Smalls, or maintaining a job. Lennie constantly puts their jobs at risk through his uncontrollable behavior.
Does power affect your relationships? If so, is it healthy? In the realistic fiction novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck writes about about itinerant workers in the Great Depression in the Salinas Valley in California. There are relationships in the novella that reflect the theme power, and he writes how power plays a role in these relationships. The theme power, shown in competence, gender, and race, affects relationships.
In the novella, Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck illustrates a ranch in the 1930’s during the great depression where those who fit into mainstream society run the show, and those deemed “outcasts” are rendered useless. Steinbeck depicts characters with setbacks that diminish their value in the eyes of society, and contrasts them to characters that have no difficulties conforming to the norm. Crooks, being a black man isolated by his race, and Candy, a elderly man limited by his age and missing limb are examples of Steinbeck characters that experience hardships because of the differences. The poor treatment of Crooks and Candy by the other characters, and their chronic unhappiness in a place that doesn’t value them, comments on how
Martin Luther King stated that “hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” Both love and hatred played a role in John Steinbeck’s novel, but in the end cruelty and hatred brought George and Lennie’s friendship to a tragic ending. Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men during the Great Depression of 1930’s.