Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a book set during the Great Depression, is a story of two friends during hard times. During these hard times the men, George and Lennie, find a job on a ranch. Lennie and George have a dream they share with one of the workers, Candy, to get a stake then buy a house and some land, but that dream goes away when Lennie causes some trouble. Lennie ends up snapping Curley’s wife’s neck and he must flee which ruins the men’s dream. Many blame Curley’s wife for ruining their dream, but she is not at fault because she just wanted someone to talk to her and did not understand Lennie's warning signs. Although the men all talk bad about Curley’s wife she has done no harm or caused any trouble to them. Since she is rumored
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Due to having a mind of a child Lennie does not realize what his real strength can do and neither does Curley’s wife. Lennie gave many warning signs that the readers could see due to earlier events in the book that Curley’s wife completely missed. She had no idea that Lennie would freak out when she moved she just thought he would touch her hair then stop when she said to. When Lennie is touching her hair it is a parallel episode to when he grabbed that girl’s dress in weed. It started out gentle, but when she moved he got scared and did what he thought would help. As she struggled under Lennie’s hands Lennie kept saying, “Oh! Please don’t do none of that. George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits” (91). Since Lennie has the mind of a child he is worrying about the rabbits and can’t see the harm he is doing to her. He just thinks eventually she will stop screaming and he can try and fix his bad thing, but she continues to struggle. Lennie shakes Curley’s wife still at an effort to stop her screaming, but again he doesn't realize his own strength and he snaps her neck. Curley’s wife got many warning signs that he would stop if she would, but she just assumed he was trying to hurt her. Although, she did ignore the signs and did not leave when asked to it still is not her fault for George, Lennie, and Candy’s dream going away. She didn’t know any better just like how
Due to having a mind of a child Lennie does not realize what his real strength can do and neither does Curley’s wife. Lennie gave many warning signs that the readers could see due to earlier events in the book that Curley’s wife completely missed. She had no idea that Lennie would freak out when she moved she just thought he would touch her hair then stop when she said to. When Lennie is touching her hair it is a parallel episode to when he grabbed that girl’s dress in weed. It started out gentle, but when she moved he got scared and did what he thought would help. As she struggled under Lennie’s hands Lennie kept saying, “Oh! Please don’t do none of that. George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits” (91). Since Lennie has the mind of a child he is worrying about the rabbits and can’t see the harm he is doing to her. He just thinks eventually she will stop screaming and he can try and fix his bad thing, but she continues to struggle. Lennie shakes Curley’s wife still at an effort to stop her screaming, but again he doesn't realize his own strength and he snaps her neck. Curley’s wife got many warning signs that he would stop if she would, but she just assumed he was trying to hurt her. Although, she did ignore the signs and did not leave when asked to it still is not her fault for George, Lennie, and Candy’s dream going away. She didn’t know any better just like how