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There have been lots of on-going discussions about the work, “Of Mice and Men”. Some critics denounce that the climax, where the audience deserves to be offered a lesson with enlightenment, is scarcely meeting their expectations. I, who is on the pro, am awfully disappointed about the outcome of the story as well. I think it is generally because Steinbeck presents a wrong view of justice by indicating that George's shooting of Lennie had saved Lennie from a catastrophic fate. By the time Steinbeck introduced his story, “Of mice and men” to public, citizens worldwide were caged in the arms of Great Depression. This grave economic plumage had threatened the lives of majority people in the world by depriving them from maintaining their jobs and authorities. This was presumably why the commentators had been overreacting on dealing with such a grievous story since the state of peoples’ economy was worse than it ever had. It is distinct that Steinbeck has converted people’s distorted face expressions due to ‘real-life calamity’ into his own style of writing. As a result, he came up with an idea of killing Lennie, whom I would state to be the main character of “Of Mice and Men”, has not necessarily informed me of the word justice. George is a quick-witted man who always keeps an eye on Lennie who has a mental disorder. Lennie may be a nuisance to George, however, he treats Lennie’s problems by telling him what to do when every time Lennie runs into trouble. It was the best strategy to correct Lennie’s wrong doings, and in fact, George knew it better than anyone else. He would repeat the same phrase over, recapitulating the main idea of the given task in order to help Lennie understand.
 * June . 16th / 2010**
 * __Literary Essay __**

Later in the story, however, George had eventually shut Lennie to death. In the book, the decision that George had made is intended to be impartial for Lennie, though it is not considered justifiable in real life. To sum up why Lennie had killed Curly’s wife is because he loved things that are soft. During the build up of the story, Lennie used to carry a dead rat around probably because he wanted to fill the tenderness of its fur. His inevitable demand for touching silky substances such as Curly’s wife’s hair have resulted in causing a suicidal struggle for Lennie’s possession of her hair. This time Steinbeck determines to characterize George as a brutal ogre rather than the man of righteous. George had once talked to Lennie in order to solve the conflict if any arouse. Foreseeing poor Lennie’s inescapable destiny, however, George had thought of one other possible way to redeem Lennie – leading him up to heaven with as less pain as he will experience on the way. To make a long story short, Steinbeck’s idea of assassinating Lennie in the end is not justifiable. A person with integrity would utilize their voice in order to provide mature advice for others to prevent themselves from confronting their errors. George, however, had flawed the principles of being one of them since he failed to defend his friend from avoiding tragic end.

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The picture of these 3 good-looking men on the picture above reminds me of a famous korean movie, "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" (below)