Was George Right to Shoot Lennie

Was George right to shoot Lennie?

Being right is often subjective, never looked at in a wider sense and also never looked at in a more detailed perspective. Lennie and George despite their intellectual differences and Lennie's inability to keep a job, share a bond. One shared by brothers or a fraternity. Steinbeck constantly shows that bond they have, but as George shoots Lennie does he show fellowship, the love of friend or are we infact supposed to think that George was just tired, insensitive, had other choices and just did not want to put them into play. Was George right to shoot Lennie?

When it come to answering this question the authors view I think is important. Steinbeck hints to us that Lennie's death is inevitable. Steinbeck also uses Candy to show that George killing lennie was the right thing to do Candy states that "I ought to of shot that dog myself...I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog". In a sense Lennie is like Candy's dog, and just like Candy, George would have beaten himself up for letting someone else take care of things for him.

The shooting itself nearly reflect the events that happen when Candy's dog is killed. In addition, the reader can see that George has it in mind. "The way I'd shot him...right back of the head, wouldn't even quiver". George shoots Lennie in the back of the head, as Carlson shot Candy's dog in the back of the head to make sure minimal pain was felt.

George had options at the end, such as running away kept going with lennie kept their cycle going, but for how long. Alternatively he could have parted ways with lennie let him take his own path; lift the burden of him being essentially a father. Any of those options would not have helped; Lennie essentially was suffering in a society where he was the underdog. Although Lennie does not see the world's thoughts of him as bad, George can and essentially, that maybe the reason why he does what he did.

George had many reasons he was right to kill Lennie. George saw that even if they had ran the events would soon happen similar and maybe they would not be able to survive them and they would both be in a bad situation. They would not have been able to keep running all their lives. If lennie had been caught there would be a far more horrible fate for him to come, George was saving him from that torture that pain, that humiliation.

Although George had reasons he was right to kill lennie, there is also reasons why he was not. Lennie was a human being and it was not for George to decide when he was to die. Lennie although he may not have been bright, he was happy with being oblivious to the world around him and George did not need to kill him because he want content with the life they were in together. If George was tired all he had to do was put George in a facility that offered help to his illness, yes it would