Alternative Ending To John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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“Of Mice And Men” (Alternative Ending) Lennie collapsed on the damp earth, it’s cool moisture combining with his sweat soaked body emitting a thick mist of steam from his huge frame. Lennie had tried to remember where to meet George, but his blind panic had sent him zig-zagging through the woods like the chickens used to do when the old lady broke their necks to prepare them for the dinner table. He remembered how soft the feathers felt and he would spend ages just running his hands through them, still soft and warm, tinged with blood…. so pretty. ‘George gonna be so mad at me’, he said to himself. He knew now that there will be no place of their own, no place to tend the rabbits, he would now for sure be sent to the “Booby hatch”.…show more content…
‘C’mon Curley let’s get it over with, he’s gettin’ what’s comin’ to him’. Curley laughed, ‘hell no, I ain’t finished with him yet, I said I was gonna make the son-of-a-bitch die slow an’ that’s jus’ what I’m gonna do’. He moved closer, put his left foot on Lennie’s chest, feeling the beat of his heart thundering through his body. Lennie cried, ‘George, I’m sorry George’. The muzzle of the shotgun pressed hard against his broad chest, ‘Jesus Curley ain’t it jus’ fittin’ ‘nough that we gonna hang his sorry ass that you have to do that?’ Curley fired point-blank into Lennie’s abdomen, the smell of sulphur and cooked flesh filled the air as the contents of the shells tore into him. Lennie felt a fire inside him, he looked down and felt the warm blood run over his fingers as it drained from his body….red…. he remembered the old lady….Aunt Clara, she used to come to him in the night when he was a young’n, full red lips, red dress, doing those things that were their…show more content…
Carlson heard George approaching and quickly put the homemade noose around Lennie’s neck. ‘Help me haul him up Curley’, he yelled. With his one good hand Curley grabbed the end of the rope and they managed to pull him just clear of the ground, tethering the other end to the trunk of the tree. George arrived breathless, sweat falling in great droplets from his face. He looked up at his friend. In some perverse way Lennie appeared to be almost at peace. George could hear a faint sound coming from Lennie’s lips, he cut him down and held his head in his hands. ‘I see the rabbits George, you promised me I would see them’. The rabbits appeared to dance in the air, leaping into a distant fog, Aunt Clara was calling, in his mind he ran towards her following the rabbits….then all was silent. George’s eyes glazed over, Curley said, ‘good riddance to the crazy bastard, he’ll kill no more women now’. George stood up, ‘this was never ‘bout your wife, you don’t give a shit about anything but yerself, he showed you for what you are, a pigshit small man with a two bit mind, Lennie might not’ve bin smart but inside he was better than either of you, now git the fuck outta my
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