Of mice and men

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How does Steinbeck prepare us for the end, and link it to the beginning?

Steinbeck prepared us for the end by many different reasons that occur in the play. The Incident at weed, killing mice, killing a dog and crushing Curley’s hand is all evidence for this.

The ‘weed’ incident prepared us for the end by alerting the readers that something has gone wrong at one place and how long will it be till something else like this occurs. “An’ you ain’t gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed, neither.”

George liked to stroke mice in his hand, but he doesn’t know his own strength as he is a big bulky strong man. ‘I could pet it with my thumb while we walked along’ said Lennie, but as Lennie is so strong he just crushes the poor animal.

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Candy’s old dog was shot because it is wrong to let an animal suffer in pain. The dog “Got no teeth, He’s all stiff with rheumatism” and he is “ancient”.  

Lennie killed Curley’s wife by acciendent because they were in the barn together and Lennie was stroking her hair, but she didn’t want him to mess it up ‘You stop it now you’ll mess it all up’. And she yelled and Lennie put his hand around her mouth and said “Oh! Please don’t do that. George will be mad”. George broke her neck another incident were Lennie ...

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