Why Did George Kill Lennie Essay

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In my opinion, George had been planning to kill Lennie all along instead of killing him out of compassion. From the very beginning of the book, George treated Lennie like an annoyance and was very rude and blunt towards him. George had said “...If I was alone I could live so easily. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble.” (Steinbeck 11) He clearly thought his life would be better without Lennie and one time went he as far as to tell Lennie that if he was related to him he would shoot himself. Right away, George does not seem like an ideal friend and has enough reason to murder Lennie just because he is a nuisance. In addition, the way George killed Lennie is the exact same way that Carlson had killed Candy’s dog but Carlson killed the …show more content…
He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.” (Steinbeck 94) George seemed pretty upset that the dream was gone and it was probably all Lennie’s fault and who knows, he could have been upset enough to kill Lennie over it. There are various other reasons why George could have killed Lennie because overall the murder does not make any sense. Yes, Curley was searching for Lennie to punish him but George’s first instinct should not have been to kill his “friend” and I use the term friend loosely because George was so rude to Lennie I do not know if he can even be considered that. Instead, he should have at least considered running away, before immediately rushing to kill Lennie. This just shows me that George probably had a deeper meaning for killing Lennie other than to save him. In my opinion, George saw Lennie as a burden and this event is definitely not Euthanasia and it is not like he tried to hide his dislike, he told Lennie various times that he would be better off without him because deep down George wanted Lennie gone. I think that George killing Lennie is not justified and he deserves to live a sad miserable life for killing the only person who cared about him in his whole