It all started last Friday when two guys arrived to work in the ranch, one guy, Lennie was huge really strong but unfortunately he wasn’t very bright and he also loved touching soft and fury things. The other guy, George was really nice and caring he was of average height and a average looking guy and I really liked him as well but Lennie never let him have a minutes peace because he had to be taken care of all the time because otherwise he would do something wrong.
On Friday evening we were playing cards and the Bunkhouse really started to smell of the dog so Carlson said to Candy to kill the dog because he would die of old age anyway but Candy didn’t want to kill him because he had him since the dog was a puppy and he Candy was looking at me to see if I was going to stop Carlson, but I didn’t because the dog did really stink and no one wanted him except for Candy. Finally we got Candy to agree to get the dog killed and Carlson took him outside and shot him, but I told Candy he can have any of my Pups to make him feel better.
Later that evening, I went to the barn to do some work, and after awhile Curley came in looking for his wife, I think he thought I was flirting with her or something because he wasn’t happy with me but I don’t care what he thinks of me anyway, I told him I hadn’t seen his wife the whole evening which made Curley very angry, we went back to the bunkhouse to see if she was back there but she wasn’t and therefore made Curley even more angry. His eyes then went on Lennie who was laughing at something else but Curley thought he was laughing at him, so he start beating him up, Lennie didn’t fight back at first but then Curley was beating him up so badly that he started bleeding and then George said to Lennie to hit him back so Lennie grabbed his fist and start crushing it, In seconds Curley’s hand started bleeding and we told lennie to let go, we wrapped Curley’s hand with a piece of cloth and told him not to tell anyone what happened and if anyone asked then he should say his hand got caught in a machine.
Saturday wasn’t as bad as Friday in fact it was quite quiet and we all decided to go to town and buy something’s for ourselves. We decided we would leave Lennie behind as he was playing with the pup’s and was enjoying himself.
On Sunday afternoon we were playing horse shoes when suddenly Candy comes out and starts shouting that Curley’s wife is on the floor in the barn. Everyone ran into the barn and looked at Curley’s wife. She was dead. Curley was furious, he knew it was Lennie and instead of feeling upset that his wife is dead he wanted to fins Lennie and shoot him, we asked George if he knew where lennie was and George told us but he didn’t come looking for lennie with us.
Nevertheless we were looking for Lennie when suddenly we heard a gunshot, we went running to where we heard it from and there we found lennie dead, shot in the head and George with a gun in his hand. George knew he had to kill him because if Curley found him he would’ve killed him out of hatred or locked him up, but he wanted to kill Lennie out of love and he wanted to give Lennie a painless death unlike Curley.
Thanks for reading my letter, I just felt like releasing all my stress and tension on this letter for you to read.
Slim
