Of Mice And Men

The first person that I think contributed to failure of the dream is auntie Clara who enticed lennie into liking soft things at a young age. When lennie was a young boy auntie Clara always gave lennie small pieces of cloth like velvet etc for him to smooth and pet and he always lost them due to lennie, s retarded ness but what but what auntie Clara did not know was that lennie, s urge to touch soft things is far greater than any other person and that his addiction was just going to build up from small things to big ones.

Secondly I am going to blame lennie for the failure of the dream. Lennie has always liked petting things for his own pleasure. Previously lennie had a piece of velvet given to him by his auntie Clara but he lost it, we know this because when he was in the barn talking to curleys wife he told her that he once had material like her dress but he lost it. Then at the start he had a dead mouse in his pocket but George saw it and told lennie to throw it away. Then later on in the story George gets lennie a puppy for him to stroke but like normal he kills it by petting it too hard, which breaks the dogs neck. And then nearly to the end of the story lennie pets Curley's wife and accidentally breaks her neck too. So as you can see lennie, s urge to pet things builds up right from the start to the end from small things to bigger ones like curlews wife. Another downfall of lennie, s is that he does not understand how much strength he has for example when they were packing the bags of corn onto the kart in the field lennie was picking them up like they were bags of feathers and throwing them onto the kart one after the other like a machine and the other two men on the kart were having trouble trying to keep up with lennie, s pace. Also another way to show that e doesn't know his own strength is that when Curley, s wife was struggling to get away from lennie, he accidentally broke her neck. And he didn't even know he had broken her neck until he let her go and she wasn't moving.

Furthermore lennie was strictly told by George to stay away from Curley's wife and that she was trouble. But did lennie listen to George, of course not! And what happened, happened and no one could do anything about it because no one knew how retarded lennie actually is. Lennie is also responsible for them losing their jobs for example when they were in weed lennie grabbed hold of a girl in a red dress and he wouldn't let go but when he did the girl ran back to the other ranch men saying he had raped her so naturally they were out to kill him because these ranch men had lack of entertainment so something like this would send a rush through there veins. But lennie and George eventually got away, so they had lost their jobs and so they moved on.

The third person I am going to blame for the failure of the dream is George. George should of listened to lennie when lennie said that this place was not good and they should move on but George ignored lennie and thought everything would be okay, But it wasn't and lennie was right they should of moved on. Another thing is George should not of kept on saying if you don't do so and so or if you do so and so you wont get to tend the rabbits. This is just putting more pressure on lennie which is causing a evil streak in lennie, Because if he was not told that, I think he would not of killed Curleys wife because when he was holding curleys wife in his arms trying to shut her up he was getting madder the louder and the more she fought back at him, and he was only getting mad because he thought that if she shouts and George comes in he wont get to tend the rabbits. I also think that George did not need to shoot lennie because they could of tried to run away again and work at another ranch because all ranches are similar full of lonely migrant workers and now George is soon to become one as well working for the money then going down town and wasting it instead of saving it. George had two paths to walk down and he took the wrong one and that's life.

Furthermore I think Curley contributed to the failure of the dream. I think curley because if Curley would of paid more attention to his wife she would not be walking around trying to talk to anyone she could find and she would not of been in the barn at the time when lennie broke her neck. And she would be in the house doing housework like most women did in those days. Instead of flirting with every man behind Curleys back and making him more jealous wife.

George and lennie,s dream was just one step away but one mistake cost them everything.

Craig Jenkins 10t