Monica Corcoro. Posting 6. Of Mice and Men

I agree with what ChiChi had to say about Lennie living a good life because he was always so happy and loving towards people. Although he didn’t mean some of the things he did—such as killing most of the pets he has owned and killing Curly’s wife—he really did not mean to harm anyone from the start. He would always be keeping his head high; and I bet Lennie would have been so excited to share a farm with George, but too bad he never got to live up that dream.

I have to give George a lot of sympathy because he was always the one who would help both Lennie and himself through obstacles. He would be the one to take care of Lennie ever since they were little. And I think that George was probably getting too fed up with him, which is probably one of the ways it would all lead up to Lennie’s death.

The way Steinbeck ended the novel was kind of unexpected and left the readers questioning a couple of things. I was wondering what George’s main point was to kill Lennie. Was it out of anger he has been keeping in all these years? Could he just not handle taking care of Lennie anymore? Was it because he didn’t want Curly to kill Lennie first? There are so many questions unanswered; which I believe is really clever of Steinbeck to do, but yet frustrating towards the reader.

What I found a little strange is that when everyone else saw that Lennie was dead, they just went on with their lives—as if it never happened; as if Lennie was never there with them. If I was a part of that group, I would be really shocked and surprised to see Lennie dead before Curly got a chance to get to him.