In Of Mice and Men, the conflict
begins when George and Lennie are running away from the last ranch in which they worked.
Lennie has a desire to touch soft things. He doesn't know his own strength. He he so
strong, and he can harm a pet or even a human being before he realizes what he has
done.
When Lennie becomes afraid, he has a tendency to
panic. Lennie is mentally handicapped. He is childlike. He will burst out sobbing if his
feelings get hurt:
Lennie is mentally handicapped: he cannot quite
remember what had happened in Weed; he speaks with a child's vocabulary; and he bursts
into tears when George makes him give up the dead mouse that he has been secretly
petting in his pocket.
Lennie
creates conflict without trying. He keeps George upset at him. Lennie breaks Curley's
hand and George has to break up the fight. Next, Lennie kills the puppy. Ultimately,
Lennie breaks Curley's wife's neck. He never meant to harm anyone. Lennie was trying to
quiet Curley's wife.
Because George cannot handle or
realizes Lennie cannot handle what Curley will do to him, George shoots Lennie in the
back of the head, thus ending the conflict for
Lennie.
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