George's Decision

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is an award-winning book about what it means to be human, characters experience isolation, temptation, having goals, and doing whats best. George and Lennie are companions, who travel the countryside looking for work. George takes care of Lennie because he has a mental disability, hes a little slower than most people, but he is big and strong. Lennie has unintentionally caused themselves trouble in the beginning which leads to them finding the ranch where the story takes place, as he pulled some girls skirt because he is obsessed with soft things. Lennie's unintentional strength causing harm is shown several times, when he was petting mice and killed both of them, and when he got a puppy but ended up killing it too. Lennie eventually unintentionally kills someones wife on the ranch, and realizes what hes done when its to late. The men on the ranch go out to look for Lennie after he runs away, and are going to kill him. George takes it apon himself to do it if it has to be done. When he finds him he is sitting down looking out at the lake. George sits next to him and tells Lennie to look at the lake, and talks about the dream that they will have a little house of their own, and a farm. After that while he is talking, he shoots Lennie in the head, making it fast, and without him knowing. This is the hardest decision George has had to make, Lennie was his only friend. He made this decision because it was in a way the right thing to do for the best, Lennie would have just ended up hurting someone else. This shows how sometimes, while not as extreme as this case, making decisions can be very difficult, but you just need to do whats best. In this case it was letting Lennie go for the better of everyone, even though he was Georges best and only friend.