She could be overly worried about her loneliness getting to her to where she would go as far as letting Lennie touch her. 34. Curley's wife allows Lennie to pet her hair, however Lennie gets too rough and this causes Curley's wife to scream. This freaks out Lennie and he covers her mouth to stop her from screaming, Lennie kills Curley's wife. This event relates to when Lennie crushed Curley's hand because Lennie couldn't figure out how to stop what is casuing him to panic in both events.
I don't care what she says and what she does. I seen 'em poison before, but I never see not piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be. "That Curley's wife does not love her husband and is merely concerned with her own pleasure and welfare is revealed in her conversation with Lennie in Chapter 5 in which she reveals that she married Curley to get away from the little town in which she lived:Well, I wasn't gonna stay no place where I couldn't get nowhere or make something of myself, an' where they stole your letters....So I married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night....Well, I ain't told this to nobody before...I don' like Curley...So, Curley's wife deserves little sympathy, although her death is tragic.
“Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard. The death of the puppy is an accident since Lennie is not able to measure or control his strength, killing the puppy unintentionally. Lennie being unable to measure his strength is one reason to why other deaths throughout the story occur.
Summary At the Beginning of the novella, George and Lennie, two migrant workers, they were leaving one job and moving to the next one. We learn that Lennie a huge man is mentally challenged and that George, a small guy is the tragic hero, who is caring for Lennie. Lennie loves soft things, he loves to find a little mouse and put it in his pocket so he can pet it while walking, but because of his strength he kills the mouse. It also shows George’s frustration with Lennie forcing them to run from place to place. They both have a dream of their own little place, and George uses this dream to try to keep Lennie in line.
Killing Lennie just like the dog, looking at other things, and speaking of dream ranches where he could tend rabbits. The gun pointed at the back of Lennie’s neck mirrored the death of Candy’s dog almost identically. “It was quick, and he didn’t feel a thing” later, when the men caught up to them, one of them had said to George that he did the right thing. The end when Slim and the boys ask George if he wants to go get a drink is Steinbeck’s way of saying that Lennie was about as important as Candy’s dog. George was merely protecting Lennie.
Actually, he says, if she has to marry, Ophelia should marry a fool, as wise men know that women only make men into "monsters", even while knowing this Ophelia kept on loving Hamlet even though Hamlet would not respect her. In act 3 scene 1, Hamlet and Ophelia are having a conversation but Hamlet is just disrespecting her in front of everyone and she doesn’t say anything but stays quiet the whole time. Ophelia’s death was an unfortunate accident. She was at best dimly aware that she was drowning – ironically a solution to her
Candy tells George that he “ought to of shot that dog [himself]“(60) and that he “shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot [his] dog”(60). Then, as George finds out about the death of Curley’s wife, it soon becomes apparent that George won’t make the same mistake as candy, that he will kill Lennie. Curley’s wife’s death is foreshadowed by Lennie’s obsession with soft
You didn’t mean to kill Curley’s wife and I know it was an accident. You didn’t know any better to let go when she started freaking out and crying ‘“ You stop it now, you’ll mess it all up. She jerked her head sideways…”’ (Steinbeck 91). When you didn’t let go it made her freak out and panic even more which caused you to panic as well causing your grip on her hair to tighten and she got into an even greater panic. It was only your reflexes, you didn’t know any better.
“Why don’t you keep your room cleaned like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed – what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk (Oats 899).” Connie and her father did not have the best relationship either because her father “didn’t bother talking much to them (899).” Even to an extent Connie “wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over (899).” So it is easy to think that her personal feeling to her family and her suicidal thoughts could influence her dream in which Arnold Friend threatens to kill her family and ultimately to kill Connie. Arnold Friend was mentioned early in the book when Connie was hanging out with a boy she had just met and hooked up with for the night.
Daisy Buchanan was in love with materialistic things from the very beginning when Gatsby says “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me” (Fitzgerald 137).The fact that Daisy would leave Gatsby for Tom Buchanan just because he was poor, really shows her love for material. Daisy’s’ materialistic values is what corrupted her. That Corruption is what Gatsby later explained to Nick about the car accident, “Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back. Daisy action shows her corrupting, since she kept driving without caring that she hit Myrtle. Daisy love for materialistic things is what causes her to live