Why is the title 'The best made plans of mice and men often go wrong' appropriate?

Tom Lowe Why is the title ‘The best made plans of mice and men often go wrong’ appropriate?

This title is very appropriate for many reasons, mainly because every plan, however big or small, made by George and Lennie, seems to go wrong for them.

The main plan between George and Lennie is that they will buy their own farm and have a selection of animals for Lennie to tend to. This plan goes wrong when Lennie inadvertently kills Curley’s wife. Lennie says ‘I done another bad thing George’, showing that Lennie has again done something that has messed up their current plans, it also shows that he has done something in the past to mess up their previous plans. Before Lennie kills Curleys wife George says, ‘I’m scared. You gonna have trouble with that Curley guy’. This shows again that Lennie has done something in his past, that he may do again, and this makes George worried that it will mess up their plans to get a farm.

When Lennie captures a mouse he accidentally kills it, George then says to him ‘You ain’t to be trusted with no live mice’. This again shows that George is very nervous that Lennie will do something wrong, and mess thing up for them. Lennie also kills the puppy, which is given to him by Slim, and this messes up Lennies plan to keep a puppy to tend to.

When Lennie kills Curleys wife, Candy and George begin to speak, and Candy says ‘You an me can still get another place George’, this makes the title appropriate because the ...