The Ending

I felt that the ending to Of Mice and Men was as it should be. There are no fairy tales and or magical wishes. In the time period that they were in, they were expecting a miracle. I think that Gorge knew the whole time that their dream would never happen, and he made it up so Lennie had determination and something to lose if he caused another incident at the farm...but that couldn't stop him. I appreciated that John Steinbeck finished the book with out leaving anything hanging so you knew how the ending played out.

I didn't dislike any part of the ending, I thought it was the right way to finish the relationships between Gorge and Lennie. When Gorge has to put Lennie down he is helping him more than he is hurting him. There would have been no way that Gorge and Lennie wouldn't have been able to have that place on the hill and by the time that Curley got to them there would be no escaping his bullet. The poem is about a mouse going through the struggle of life and not being able to handle what storm comes next. Gorge and Lennie go through struggles of their own, they may be different than the mice's but there defiantly struggles. John Steinbeck  is saying that life in that stage of the great depression is hard and when you can you should have another friend or family member to lean on or to keep you sane.