He had to kill his only friend, because Lennie had killed someone and the whole ranch was after him. “ George raised the gun and his hand shook and he dropped his hand to the ground again”(pg 105). George didn’t want to be completely alone. “George raised the gun and steadied it. He brought the muzzle close to the back of Lennie’s head. His hand shook violently, but his face set and he steadied it. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and down again. Lennie jarred, and settled slowly forward in the sand, and he lay without quivering”(pg 106). Now George is the loneliest character in the book. At the end of the book Carlson said “Now what you suppose is eatin them two guys?”(pg107). Loneliness is what is “eating” them.
George Milton is the loneliest character is the book “Of Mice and Men”. He’s a ranch worker, they have no family or friends jumping from job to job. His only friend was mentally challenged, so he had no one to really talk to, and in the end of the book he had to shoot his only