Suffering with an incurable disease is horrendous, with the only way out is euthanasia. In Of mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Candy’s dog is getting older every day, without any treatment. This hurts not only the dog, but it Candy as well. This is an outcome to the dog being with Candy from day one. In addition, Lennie has an illness with no antidote, he’s intellectually disabled. With that in mind, George knows about this and is frightened about what Lennie does throughout the day, making sure he’s not causing any trouble, or who Lennie speaks to. Considering what Candy and George were going through, before they decided to mercy kill their best friends, it must have hurt them more than it hurt the dog and Lennie. In the book, Candy’s dog …show more content…
In the book, Lennie rudely barges into Crooks’ barn. Then, Crooks starts to talk with Lennie, then an interesting question blurted out of Crooks’ mouth, “S’pose George don’t come back no more. What’ll you do then?” (Steinbeck 71). This all would have been avoided if Lennie didn’t go into the barn, but it was because of Lennie’s disability that made him wonder what the light was. Following up on that, when Lennie accidentally snaps Curley’s wide’s neck, Curley finds out and yells out, “I’m going to shoot the guts out of that big bastard myself” (Steinbeck 98). This occurs after the death of Curley wife, because Lennie couldn’t help himself from clamping on to her hair, do to him being disability. Lastly, at the end of the book, George has to what he never wanted to, “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again” (Steinbeck 106). After Lennie snaps Curley’s Wife’s neck, George realizes that Lennie had done something that no one would forget about, with no way out. Lennie and George have each other’s back forever. When George shot Lennie, it was like part of George’s back went with