Dear George

Dear George,

I think that you did the right decision to shoot Lennie. It may have been a hard thing to do, but it was the right thing to do. Like Slim said to you that one time, it wouldn't have been any good to keep Lennie alive. "...s'pose they lock him up an' strap him down and put him in a cage. That ain't no good, George." It's just like what happened with Candy's dog. There wouldn't have been any reason for him to live. He was also causing others trouble. He didn't know his own strength. For all we know, you might have even been the next one that could get hurt. He wasn't any good for himself, or anyone around him.

This is actually just like what happened with Candy and his old dog. Lennie was always just suffering. One way he was suffering was that he was actually never going to get what he wanted. Because some of the things that we really want, we'll never get to have. He may not have known that he won't get to tend the rabbits, but you did. That wasn't the only way the he was suffering though. Even though you may say "he's not crazy", he really was. He was hallucinating and crazy. "Aunt Clara was gone, and out of Lennies head came a gigantic rabbit." You shooting him just took him out of him misery. "This ol' dog jus' suffers hisself all the time." He may not have knew it, but he was suffering. He was never going to get what he wanted. He was never going to get to tend the rabbits.