Examples Of Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

After Lennie has inadvertently murdered Curley’s wife, Curley’s lynch mob go out in search of Lennie. George’s decision is almost inevitable to spare Lennie’s life, rather than let Curley and his gang destroy the bit of life Lennie has.

First, in Weed, Lennie got in trouble because he wanted to feel a dress that a girl in Weed had on but she did not want him to. Then he gripped ahold of it really tight and the girl started to scream for help so George and Lennie had to run from Weed. It says on page 39, “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch everything he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reached out to feel this red dress and’ the girl lets out a squawk And that gets Lennie all mixed up and he hold on cause that the only thing he can think to do.” Next, Lennie made the same mistake with Curley’s wife. The text states on page 86, “Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then, and Lennie’s other hand closed over her mouth and nose. Please don’t! He

This phrase is used a lot in the book to tell the reader the conflict between the character and soft things, Lennie one of the characters in the book is used a lot to talk about the conflict. One conflict is when George and Lennie leave their last job in a town called Weed because Lennie wanted to pet a girl’s soft dress. He got accused of rape and left the town to avoided getting lynched. Another conflict is when Lennie kills the puppy by smacking it to hard. After he killed the puppy, Curley’s wife walks in the barn and talks to Lennie.The term “I like to pet nice things” is used after Lennie starts to talk to Curley’s wife. Bad effects happen after Lennie pets soft things like how he got accused of rape and killing the puppy. The action of Curley’s wife death starts with his wife, Lennie begins to feel her hair and likes how it feels. It leads him to pet it too hard, Curley's wife begins to struggle, which sends Lennie into a panic. He grabs a hold of her hair and muffles her screams. While she still to struggles, Lennie become angry. He shakes her violently, telling her to keep quiet so that George doesn't hear her. Before he knows it, he has broken her neck. She lies dead on the hay. Lennie notices that he killed her. All these events lead to the foreshadowing of the death of Curley’s

On the other hand, Lennie is tall and strong, making no match for Curley. This foreshadows the future fight between Lennie and Curley as the pressure finally bursts. The duel starts when Curley misreads Lennie and plunges into attack, slashing and smashing. Lennie, afraid to make a move, takes the

The occasional moments that Curley's wife is introduced, an unhealthy feeling ran over the atmosphere hinting that Lennie will be recognizing chaos with her. George states in the very beginning that the circumstances of him always getting into accidents is likely to happen to him in this book, "You do bad things and I got to get you out," (p.11). The situation in the town Weed involved a girl just like how Curley's wife just appears

Initially, Lennie’s first misdeed occurs in Weed. While in Weed, Lennie becomes excited, grabs a hold of a young girl’s dress, and does not understand when he needs to let go. This leads to both George and Lennie being forced to run away for their own safety, as Lennie is accused of raping the young girl. In addition, once arriving in Soledad, readers are given a sense of unease at the introduction of the characters Curley and Curley’s Wife. This can be seen as yet another example of foreshadowing, hinting to the reader that something unpleasant will happen between Lennie, Curley, and Curley’s Wife later in the book, as George warns him with “Look, Lennie!... You gonna have trouble with that Curley guy” (29). Later, Curley has a fight with Lennie over his wife, resulting to Lennie being beaten, but Curley is carried off with a broken hand. Furthermore, Lennie’s acts once more escalate when he grabs a hold of the hair of Curley’s Wife and eventually kills her by snapping her neck when he again is unable to release his grip on her. The escalation of these events point to Lennie’s own death, as each of his wrongdoings have worse punishments, from running away, to being beaten, to eventually being mercifully dispatched by

In chapter five, Curley’s wife tries too have a conversation with Lennie. Lennie repeats to Curley's wife ,"George says I ain't to have nothing to do with you- talk to you or nothing." But Curley’s wife ends up getting Lennie to have a conversation with her. The topic of soft things is brought up and Curley’s wife says to Lennie, “ feel right aroun’ there an’ see how soft it is” (steinbeck 90) referring to her own hair. This leads to Lennie petting her hair too hard and causes her to freak out like the woman in Weed. By her freaking out causes Lennie to grab her by the neck and cover her mouth due to being frightened. Lennie then unintentionally breaks her neck without knowing he did . When Lennie realizes what he did, he tries hiding her body from the other migrant farmers. In this case, Lennie is like a little child, when they do something bad and tries to hid it from their parents. With Lennie being so strong and not knowing his own strength makes him even more threatening. Lennie's terrible actions justifies George's reason to kill him. If George wouldn't have shot Lennie, then Lennie could have hurt another person by

Lennie doesn’t protect himself at first but then “George yells, ‘Get him, Lennie. Don’t let him do it.’ ” Lennie goes for Curley’s hand and crunches it into small little pieces. Lennie looks at Curley in panic as he holds his broken hand. George rushes over to tell Lennie to stop, he tells Lennie to stop over and over again.

The moment Curley’s wife waltzed into the barn the scene was set, the person that Lennie had been warned not to converse with had entered the room. Lennie used all his willpower not to speak to her, but alas she overpowers him, and a conversation ensued after she noticed the dead puppy, and then told Lennie her life story. she told him that she didn’t like curley and that she could’ve been an actress, but it never seemed to work out, and now she’s stuck on a ranch with an unappreciative husband and a bunch of men that won’t talk to her. A short while into the conversation Lennie explains to Curley’s wife about his love for soft things, to which she says that everybody likes soft things and that he must like linen. She then tells him that she enjoys playing with her hair on account of how soft it is and tells him that he can feel it if he would like to. This would prove to be the biggest mistake of her short life. Lennie grabbed her hair and said something to the effect of “thats nice” after a few seconds Curley’s wife became worried that Lennie was going to “muss” up her hair, and told him to let go, but he didn't. Curley’s wife then proceeded to scream, which scared Lennie and only caused him to hold on tighter and cover her mouth in an attempt to quiet her, when she began to struggle Lennie shook her, which made her fall silent. Lennie set her down in the hay, and realized that he’d done something bad, very bad, he had killed Curley’s wife

He has the inability to control his strength. This is only one of the animals Lennie kills in the story that is small and helpless. There can be a connection in the reader's mind that Lennie will only become less aware of his doings and cause things to get out of hand such as killing a person. Another way Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to build suspense to Curley's wife's death is when Lennie holds on to the girls dress in the town of weed from which they got kicked out of. Lennie explains to George that he, “Jus’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress-jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse-

Later in the story Lennie accidentally snaps the neck of Curley’s wife. When the lynch party sets out after Lennie, George shoots his lifelong friend in the back of the head. Foreshadowing is a literary device used by authors to give clues to a reader about what is

This is shown when (doc b) states “Lennie sat in the hay looked at a little dead puppy that lay in front of him.” This shows that Lennie is capable of killing a puppy with his bare hands and therefore probably a human. Also, (doc b) states “ Just’ wanted to feel that girl’s dress-- jus’ wanted to pet it like it was a mouse.” This shows what Lennie likes to pet soft things like Curley's wife’s hair. Again, Lennie liked to pet or stroke soft things and that suggest that Lennie would pet something soft that could cause a lot of trouble, for example, Curley’s wife’s hair.

Lennie touches anything that is soft, but unfortunately he doesn't know his strength. “That mouse ain’t fresh lennie; and besides, you’ve broken it pettin it. You get another mouse that's fresh and keep it a little while” (Steinbeck 11) This obsession with soft things is why he ends up getting killed. He touches Curley's wife's hair because her hair is soft. He ends up touching it to rough and that gets Curly’s wife scared and that made lennie scared. When Lennie gets frightened he holds things tighter and eventually he ends up killing Curley's wife by cracking her neck. Lennie loves it when george tells him about all the rabbits he's going to have and be able to tend. “Come on george tell me about the rabbits, george” (Steinbeck 11). “It ain't the same if i tell it go on george, tell how i get to tend the rabbits.” (Steinbeck 16). Lennie is obsessed with rabbits because they are very soft creatures. He loves it when George tells him the story about how he will end up tending the rabbits. That is one obsession that he has. Steinbeck uses these types of foreshadowing for the reader to kind of get a clue of what is going to happen in the next pages or end of the

This creates conflict between the two because Lennie starts to grip Curley’s wife’s hair making her yell out. This causes Lennie to hold on to the hair tighter trying to quiet her down. His strong grip breaks Curley’s wife’s neck, killing her. The third conflict in chapter 5 is person vs. fate. Earlier in the book, George, Lennie’s companion, tells Lennie to go the brush where they stayed in the beginning of the book if he does anything bad. “I done a real bad thing,’ he said ‘I shouldn’t of did

Finally, John Steinbeck shows off the bullying and meanness as intentional and contrasts it to Lennie’s unintentional meanness, such as when he hurts the puppy (pg 85), the mouse (pg 5), and kills Curley’s wife (pg 91). When Curley wants to fight it is intentional and violent. George explains Lennie’s violence when he says that Lennie "never done it in meanness" (pg 104). Lennie kills because he does not know his own strength – he cuddles or loves to hard. Also, he panics and reacts without thought, such as when he pulled the woman’s dress. (pg 41) Also, showing a contrast in motive is that Lennie is so upset by what he has done, especially to Curley’s wife. He is the only one who shows real remorse.