george+kills+lennie+decision

In "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck George and Lennie were best friends. But then Lennie accidently killed Curley's wife. Curley wanted revenge on Lennie for killing his wife. So George shot Lennie before anyone else could. Was he right? I think George made the best decision he could in the amount of time he had. However you could argue that George made the wrong decision. You could say that in killing Lennie George took all of Lennie's options away. No one knows what might have happened. Curley might have fallen off his horse. Or the others might have stopped Curley from killing Lennie. If Lennie had surrived the judge might have seen that Lennie hadn't meant to kill Curley's wife and the judge might have went easy on him. Also in killing Lennie George became a murderer. That said I still believe George made the right choice. George killed Lennie painlessly and quickly. Lennie had no idea what was going to happen and his last moments were happy ones. If George hadn't killed Lennie Curley probably would have. If Curley had killed Lennie it would have been painful and drawn out. And Lennie's last memories would be of some stranger pointing a gun at him. Even if Lennie had somehow surrived, wich is not likely, he would probably be sent to prison. And I think we can all agree that Lennie would not do well in prison. He would get in fights with the other prisoners. Without George Lennie would not have been happy. He would not have anything to look foward to. I think George made the right decision.