Frustrated, he curses the dog for dying and hurls it across the room. Soon, though, Lennie retrieves the puppy, strokes it again, and reasons that perhaps George won’t care, since the puppy meant nothing to George. As he talks to himself, Curley’s wife enters and sits beside him. He hastily hides
After working all day in the fields candy’s (another worker) dog who is old and smells, walks into the room making everyone else angry this shows foreshadow because putting the dog down represents the responsibility of having to care for something and with candy it is his dog where he has to have its best interests in heart. Then later in the passage candy says to George how he should have shot his dog instead of letting Carlson does it. This foreshadows the end of the book where George ends up having to shoot lennie to keep him from suffering just like candy and his dog where both parties just wanted their friend to have a happy ending to their life. This foreshadowing contributes to the book in the long run because at that point in the book you know what George is going to have to do at the end of the book and this shows how the character is going to have to change before the end because from this text you know that something is going to happen between George and lennie and this foreshadowing crates suspense because you know it’s going to happen it’s just you don’t know when causing the reader to always be on the guard for when it does creating a dark and suspenseful atmosphere for the remainder of the
Sarty, his father, and older brother meet up with his mother, aunt, and two sisters; who were already waiting in the wagon with all their broken possessions. That night, Abner accuses Sarty of almost betraying him in court, and then tells him that the most important thing to do is stand by your family. The Snopes finally arrive at their new home, where they will be working as tenant farmers. Soon after Abner purposely steps in horse poop and then in the owners house tracking poop all over the white rug in the front room. The owner later has the rug sent to the Snopes to be cleaned.
George stated at the beginning that Lennie always gets into troubles. “You do bad things and I go to get you out,” (Steinbeck, 11). When Lennie held Curley's wife tighter and tighter we all knew whats going to happen because first he killed a mouse and he thought he will not do the same thing with a puppy. John Steinbeck used his creativity use of foreshadowing to make the book more enjoyable to read. Lennie seems to be very strong, but in reality he is the weakest character in the novel “Of Mice And Men”, because of the lack of his mentality ability and the missing characteristic to think for himself and make his own decisions.
One day, Curley's wife hopes to leave and be able to live her dream without anyone's approval. She enjoyed talking to anyone she could, one day she went to the barn and found Lennie crying about the puppy he had killed. Allowing him to touch her hair, he rubbed too hard and made her try to yell for help. Curley's wife died by trying to get help, her neck was snapped by Lennie and just like that all her dreams were gone. In the novella, Of Mice and Men, one person can ruin a person’s dream forever.
In the novel of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters most responsible for the death of Curley’s wife are Candy and Curley. Candy is one of the characters responsible for the death of Curley’s wife because he gossips about her and he rejects her. For example, when George and Lennie first arrive at the ranch, they meet Candy in the bunkhouse who tells them that he saw Curley’s wife, “…give Slim the eye” (28). Candy gives the new workers, George and Lennie, information about Curley’s wife being flirtatious to other ranch workers even though she is married. Due to Candy’s bad impression of Curley’s wife to George and Lennie, George became paranoid and gave Lennie strict rules to follow, which eventually caused Curley’s wife to die as a result.
''So you forgot that awready did you''. This makes George look like a reminder for Lennie as Lennie wont be able to remember a lot of things by himself, also this foreshadows later events in the novel because after Lennie killed Curleys wife, George had to remind him about the place to run to. Lennie strokes Curleys wifes hair. This foreshadows later events in the novel because Lennie also strokes a pet mouse. ''I could pet it with my thumb while we walk along; said Lennie''.
She looked after him and made sure he was cared for, she gave lennie plenty of mice to pet and rub but yet he killed them all so she always got more for him. After she passed george came along and looked after him not much is said about when and where george came into the picture. Curley's wife a woman with no name given is married to Curley but not so happily married she goes around the farm to the boys and tempts them by flattery. In a way Curley’s wife is a villain but also the victim, in the sense she is a villain is because she is not only vulnerable but she looks for the weaknesses in others such as Lennies disability, crooks color, and Candy’s age to take advantage of them and keeps herself from trouble. But she is also the victim she has no name she is merely the property of curly she is one of the loneliest characters in Of Mice of
The bunkhouse is where most of the conversations happen. Loneliness is a key theme which occurs inside the bunkhouse because this is where Carlson bullies candy into allowing him shoot his ageing, smelly, crippled dog. Candy is dependent on his dog as the dog has been with him for a long time but also there are similarities between candy and the dog they can be both labelled as useless because candy lost his hand whilst he was working on the ranch so there aren’t much work for him to do, the reason he still is on the ranch is so that he could claim his compensation that he deserves, the dog is also useless because his old and tired and wouldn’t be able to herd the sheep as before. So when Carlson does shoot the poor dog candy feels alone with no one to be there with him. Dreams is also linked in with the bunkhouse because this is where George and Lennie discuss their dream ‘of living on the fat of the land’ ‘ Lennie tending the rabbits’ but candy over hears their conversation and wants to be part of their dream.
These events like in “Kaffir Boy” where the narrator’s is randomly raided by police at any given time. The narrator has no choice or idea when the raids will happen. Another example of an event caused by chance is from “Of Mice and Men” Lennie was petting Curley’s wife a little too hard and he eventually kills her on accident. This by accident as he was just trying to stop her from screaming and gripped her too hard. These examples did not let the person who was affected by it to have a choice, They simply happened.