Of Mice and Men Through the book Of Mice and Men the two main characters Lennie and George experience an epiphany. Lennie has the body and strength of a bear but the brain of a child. He goes through life not knowing what is good or bad. He will be told to not do certain thing but never fully comprehends why that action is depraved. One day Lennie is sitting in the barn petting a dog due to his strength the dog dies. Shortly after this a woman walks in and comforts him well she is doing this deed Lennie starts to comb through her hair she then starts to fuss but since Lennie knows if George hears her fussing that he will be upset with him. Lennis starts to cover her mouth to quite her down but the woman could no longer breathe and she…show more content… He has lived his life taking care of Lennie and guiding him through by getting him jobs and shelter. He always wants the best for Lennie and seeks to make him happy. After he finds out that Lennis killed a woman he knows that her husband is going to come find him and kill Lennie. George finds Lennie and knows that in the end what is best for Lennie is to kill him himself. Instead of having the other man kill him in a much more painful way. George tells Lennie a story about them having their own farm and being happy he then tells Lennie to look over the river. George then shoots him in the back of his neck. Well George is telling this story about the farm him and Lennie would have that he had told many times he came to this awareness that they would never be able to have this farm together “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to think maybe we would.”(Steinbeck 170). George comes to the understanding that he will be that stereotype he described of people who work on ranches “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re pound-in’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.”(Steinbeck 32). He