Comparing The Right Decisions In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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When exactly is the right time to decide to end the suffering of a loved one? How could anyone in their right mind make a decision like that? In the novella Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, a tall, skinny, farmer named George Milton is forced to make a decision of killing his best friend a huge and lumbering giant named Lennie Smalls. Lennie is mentally handicapped. Lennie looks like he is a forty year old grown man, but in his mind, he is a playful, innocent five year old. George made the right decision because Lennie was getting into too much trouble and George told Lennie not to mess with Curley’s wife, If George didn’t kill Lennie Curley would have found them and would have had Lennie lynched or beaten to death, and George new Lennie wanted freedom so George shoots Lennie with Lennie clearly imagining their dream farm. George told Lennie not to mess with Curley’s wife, as soon as they got to the ranch she was strutting her stuff like she owned the place. In the novella George tells Lennie “Don’t you even take a look at that [...]. I don’t care what she says or what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jailbait worse than her. You leave her be”(Steinbeck 32). In the book this line is said when they first meet Curley’s …show more content…
George was right to kill Lennie because Lennie was getting into too much trouble, if George didn't kill Lennie Curley would've shot him in the guts and made him suffer, and George new Lennie wanted freedom so George shoots Lennie with Lennie clearly imagining their American dream farm. Steinbeck clearly shows the friendship that George and Lennie have together and one day we might be faced to make the same decision that George made. Hopefully, when that day comes, it will be the right
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