Mice and Men

This essay is about the film mice and men. I am going to talk about several points of interest;

the role of Curley’s wife, the plot and what my opinion is about the film. I write this essay as

an exercise to improve my writing skills because it is not sufficient yet.

The story goes about a friendship between 2 men in which one is very clever (George) and

one is very dumb (Lennie). They share the same dream and to achieve this dream they need

money. Life is not that easy and there happen a lot of things which come in their way to

make their dream come true.

One of the things which come on their way is Curley’s wife called Candy. Candy is a

beautiful and friendly girl with no bad intentions at all. She lives with Curley in a house on the

range, where Curley, George, Lennie and a lot of other men work. Candy feels very lonely

because Curley is always away working and there are no other girls to talk to. Sometimes

she tries to talk to the workers when they come back after a long day on the fields,

unfortunately without any success because the men want to stay out of trouble. Lennie finds

it hard to understand she is ‘dangerous’ and even after George prohibited him to talk to her,

he finally does. From my point of view she was brought up in the story to make it more

exciting and unpredictable. I had not expected that Lennie would finally talk to her, he was so

obsessed with their dream and he knew it would not come true when he would talk to Candy.

So I think the role of Curley’s wife in the film was to give it an unexpected twist.

After Lennie broke Candy’s neck by accident he went to the secret place where he would

meet with George if he did anything ‘bad’. George made up a plan so he would be earlier by

Lennie than the other workers who wanted to punish him. George knew that if he would not

safe Lennie he would have to suffer a lot and he wanted to prevent this. It was too late to run

away and the only solution George saw was to shoot Lennie himself. Everybody has a

different opinion on this, some say it was justified and others find it condemnable. In my

opinion in spite of it is terrible and you can not explain such things as murder, it was the best

solution for Lennie but also for George. Lennie was saved from a lot pain and George could

go on with his life which had been held up by Lennie, therefore it was justified.

To conclude, I think it is a very good film and nice to use for a discussion with friends or in

class. I would say the role of Curley’s wife was to give the story an unexpected twist and

George did the best what he could do and therefore it was justified.

Franka Roest

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