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

What may have caused George to kill Lennie? What series of events may have caused this to happen? In the novel “Of Mice and Men”, George finds himself making some really tough decisions. He faces a number of different circumstance such as conflict, fear, domestic problems and eventually death. These circumstances bring about emotions that clearly affect his choices. In this essay we will explore George’s transition of thoughts throughout the story to better understand the choices that were made.

In chapter 1, George faces his anger and later is aware that anger could lead to harming a close person to you. In the beginning of the chapter, we learn that Lennie messes with a woman’s dress which causes for him and George to hide in a ditch all

We learn in chapter 4 that Lennie accidentally kills one of Slim’s puppies. Lennie is heartbroken, but Curley’s wife comes to soothe him by allowing Lennie pet her hair. Later, Lennie begins to unexpectedly pull on her scalp as she screams in pain. He then proceeds to try and make her stop yelling but shakes her too hard and breaks her neck. When news began to spread about Curley’s wife death, George already knew it was Lennie. It is at about this point where George has made his final decisions on what he will do for Lennie and himself. Very quickly, people figure out that it’s Lennie so they make a run for the creek. Surprisingly, Slim decides to join the two and help them escape the angry mob chasing them. Throughout this chapter, we figure that George is tired of taking care of Lennie and doesn’t want to run away anymore. For example, Candy was the first to find out of the death so he retrieves George first. Candy then says,”What done it? George replies,”Ain’t you got any idear? I should of knew.” Not only do we know that Lennie killed Curley’s wife, but so does George himself. He even seems disappointed and furious at Lennie for doing