What is your opinion of the end of the novel Of Mice and Men? Is it inevitable?

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What is your opinion of the end of the novel Of Mice and Men? Is it inevitable?

After reading the novel of mice and men I am able to conclude that there are some parts of the book which were inevitable to happen at the end however there were some which were unexpected. John Steinbeck writes the novel very well and does drop hints throughout the book which lead towards what is going to happen at the end.

What I did expect to happen at the end was that Lennie and George's dream was not going to come true. Not only for these two characters but I concluded that none of the workers living on the ranch would fulfil their dreams because they had such high hopes and ambitions and they were living in their dream world as it is very hard for there dreams to be fulfilled in those times. Most of the characters knew that their dreams would not come true but however believed in them still because they kept somehow convincing themselves that they could achieve their dream but the more they believed in their dreams the harder they were to achieve.
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What I didn't expect to happen at the end which came as a shock to me was that Curley's wife dies due to Lennie stroking her hair. Because Lennie is not aware of his own physical strength he ends up stroking her roughly and breaking her neck. When I did finish reading the book, I saw that John Steinbeck had left a clue to how Curley's wife would die. He did this by having Lennie say that he will break the neck of the animal that hurt his rabbits. This tells me that this is how Curley's wife ...

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