Violence In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Violence in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Our community has rapidly increased in violence, people don't recognize it as much because of the fact that it occurs in rare situations. When people spot cruelty they run away from it. John Steinbeck, in his novel Of Mice and Men has the reader experience the violence that the characters go through, even being smaller and weaker than all.

George’s life has always been hard with trying to take care of a mentally disabled human, Lennie. He takes all of his anger out on being emotionally violent towards Lennie. Throwing a huge outbreak. It can be tough for George to live with Lennie because George can't always be composure towards him making him angry and upset. For example in chapter 1 George chucked Lennie’s mouse across the pool after that occurred Lennie grew very upset and felt useless. With that being said George can be emotionally violent towards Lennie’s well being of kindness. George has been stuck with Lennie most of his life, but eventually it has to come to a mental breakdown end, in chapter 6 George pulls the trigger on Lennie ending everything after all for

She is lonely but a very sassy woman. Although most of the men are very rude to her she manages to pull through it and take it out on other people, being extra mentally brutal towards Crooks and Lennie. One example from chapter 4, Curley’s wife starts threatening Crooks to have him lynched. By doing this she is setting a bad example to the men that work there thinking she is uncontrollable. Since this she has been known to be very threatening and violent towards others. Ultimately, Of Mice and Men overall was a very violent book that represented many characters that were cruel and unwanted on the farm. The author shows from the novel how many characters had physical strength that oppresses men and woman. The readers learned even at their weakest, they soul to destroy people that are