Of Mice And Men Lennie And George's Relationship

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Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck takes place in Salinas California. Steinbeck introduces two characters who are trying to find jobs so that they will soon be able to buy their own land. The novella takes place during the Great Depression where it is hard to find and keep jobs that pay a good amount of money. If the characters lose their jobs they will not have any money, and can not get their own land. Throughout the novella Steinbeck establishes the bond of two characters: he identifies the relationship of two characters, how they influence each other, and the role responsibility plays in their relationship. Relationships do not come easy, they take effort, commitment, and communication, which is what Steinbeck creates in the novella.…show more content…
In the novella Lennie is trying to mend his and George’s relationship by constantly apologizing for killing Curley’s wife, and making sure George is not mad at him. After Lennie continues to apologize to George, George finally says to Lennie, “You...an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ’em” (Steinbeck 106). George deliberately killed Lennie because he knew that if Lennie were to of not been killed and instead tortured or put in prison he would not know what to do without…show more content…
When George says to Lennie “ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble”, he is trying to tell Lennie that nobody is going to hurt him anymore and he will be free to do whatever he wants in heaven, because George is going to put him out of his misery. The way that George decides to kill Lennie is he makes Lennie look away from him and at the pool, this way it causes less pain to George because he does not have to stare directly at Lennie when he shoots him. George starts to build up the story of the ranch that Lennie and George wanted to get. He builds up this story because when George shoots Lennie he wants him to be thinking of happy and peaceful thoughts. From what George says to Lennie it is easy to identify that George does not want to kill Lennie so that he would not have to look after him anymore, or so he could keep his money, he killed him because George knew that if he could not be there for Lennie, Lennie was better off being in a place where he would not get in trouble, and where he could pet all the rabbit he wanted, which was heaven. George does not want anything bad to happen to Lennie; Lennie does not want anything bad to happen to George. George and
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