Of Mice and Men foreshadowing

Throughout the book “Of Mice and Men,” the author John Steinbeck drops hints of what will happen further in the book, also known as foreshadowing. To begin, the first foreshadowin moment is when George tells Lennie what to do if he ever gets in trouble. “Lennie—if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush.” This later relates to when Lennie had to go and hide in the brush after he killed Curley’s wife and his pup. Furthermore, the next moment the story foreshadows in when George and Lennie first meet Curley, George tells Lennie to stay away from him because he will cause him no good. Later on we find out that George was right, “Then Curley’s rage exploded. ‘Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella… He slashed at Lennie with his left, and then smashed his nose with a right. Lennie gave a cry of terror.” Moving on, when Lennie and George meet Curley’s wife George also has a bad feeling about her. George tells Lennie, “Listen to me, you crazy bastard,’ he said fiercely. ‘ Don’t you even take a look at that bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.” Further along in the novel, when Curley’s wife was talking to Lennie and she let him feel her hair, he wouldn’t let her go and ended up killing her. Finally, the last foreshadowing event was when they killed Candy’s dog. Candy told George, “I ought to shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” This is something that George remembers when he kills Lennie. It was rather he shoot him while he was happy, or have him be killed upset and by some man. As one can tell throughout the book John Steinbeck loves to drop hints about what will happen later on.