Answer:
From Literacy Themes
Step-by-step explanation:
Both George and Lennie feel that the ranch “ain’t no good place,” but they have to stay because they “can’t help it”; they are victims of a society that idealizes the American Dream, but doesn’t give people many options for achieving it. Other examples of the characters’ lack of freedom stem not from explicitly economic circumstances, but from the harsh nature of life for the disempowered. Aging and disabled Candy cannot prevent Carlson from shooting his dog, and Crooks, a black man, can neither get people to visit him in his room nor keep them out. Curley’s wife suggests she was left with no options besides marrying Curley: “I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere.” Most tragically, George is compelled to shoot his friend Lennie. Curley’s aggression leaves George with a choice between killing Lennie himself or letting Curley and the mob lynch Lennie. Slim understands that this choice was not made from George’s own freedom, but rather from the cruel circumstances of life as a poor migrant worker: “You hadda, George.”