What Happens Now?
This is a novel of defeated hope and the harsh reality of the life as poor homeless migrant workers whose dreams are to have the opportunity to work for themselves and harvest what they sew with no one to take anything from them or give them orders. George and Lennie desperately cling to the notion that they are different from other workers who drift from ranch to ranch because, unlike the others, they have a future and each other. Their companionship contrasts the loneliness that surrounds them-the loneliness of the homeless ranch worker, the loneliness of the outcast black man, the loneliness of the subjected woman, the loneliness of the old, helpless cripple-and it arouses curiosity in the characters that they encounter, Slim included The way I feel about Lennie is that he was a hopeless cause, even if he didn't mean to do those things to the mouse, puppy, and Curl's wife. He has a good heart, but he has to pay for his actions. I obviously see that there will be no other way to keep Lennie in this world a little longer. For George it's the only way for them two to be really happy. George can't always escape from Lennie's troubles. So it was best for George to have killed Lennie himself. That is the cause and effect of lif
She says that she is the same way and sometimes likes to sit and feel her own hair. The significance of Candy's dog when Candy says to George that he wishes someone would shoot him when he's no longer any good. Slim, who knows the truth, suggests that he and George go for a drink and walks off with him, saying, much to the curiosity of Curley and Carlson, "You hadda, George. He been doin' nice things for you all time" (111). She invites Lennie to feel how soft it is and the careful reader immediately recognizes the danger of this invitation, remembering the soft, dead mouse and the soft, dead puppy. This sub-plot is an obvious metaphor for what George must do to Lennie, who proves to be no good to George and no good to himself. Lennie doesn't notice the lifelessness in George's tone, and happily urges him to tell about the little place with the rabbits. I still feel sorry for Lennie, because he is just a fragile human who's just went the wrong way and that's why George had to shoot him. The voices of the search party are audible from up the river. George, tired and speaking softly, convinces the others that he forced Lennie to give him Carlson's pistol and then he shot him with it. George tells Lennie to look across the river "so you can almost see it" (115), and Lennie turns away from George and stares dreamily across the pool. In his solitude, Lennie is confronted by two ghosts, who curiously speak to him in his own voice. Lennie miserably agrees with the voice of his own conscience and says he will go away into the hills, but Aunt Clara says that he will just "stick around an' stew the b'Jesus outa George all the time" (111).
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