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What is the irony in mice and men?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

the irony is hat candy had his dog shot in the back of the head, and there are quotes where lenny is portrayed as a dog using metaphors like at the beginning whaen lenny has the mouse and george tells him to leave it and it compared lenny to a dog , and at the end, george shoots lenny in the back of the head as if he were his dog

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