Why does John Steinbeck include a giant rabbit and Aunt Clara in the last scene of Mice and Men?

Why does John Steinbeck (author of mice and men) include the giant rabbit and Lennie's Aunt Clara in the last scene of Mice And Men?Why does John Steinbeck include a giant rabbit and Aunt Clara in the last scene of Mice and Men?
Giant Rabbit - represents the fear that George will harm him or abandon him. At first, the rabbits were a soft animal that he loved... now they haunt him. It is a clear conversion of how Lennie's simple thought process has moved from innocence to complete lunacy (although, it wouldn鈥檛 be considered complete madness as his worst fears come true when George ultimately kills him).





Aunt Clara - is a domineering mother figure that disapproved of how much trouble he has caused. This further strengthens his fears.





Both together reinforce Lennie's fears that he is a burden to George and is better off living along and in isolation.


Why does John Steinbeck include a giant rabbit and Aunt Clara in the last scene of Mice and Men?
Steinbeck was using dream imagery to tell us about the connection between George and Lennie. Lennie knows that what he has done is wrong and he knows that George can't really help him out of the situation like he has with others in the past. Aunt Clara was someone who constantly reminded Lennie of wrong and right as well as took part of the responsibility for Lennie's actions. She took care of him so although she is scolding when Lennie imagines her, he loves her and knows that she loved him. The giant rabbit is a figment of Lennie's imagination. Remember the dream that the two shared. That one day they would have a place of their own and Lennie could tend the rabbits. Well, now a giant rabbit is telling Lennie awful things. In the part of Lennie's mind that is no childlike, he knows that George will have to do something and that he won't get to ';tend the rabbits.';





Steinbeck used a lot of imagery in his stories. According to the Cliff Notes the imagery in this story particular the imagery represented the large dreams that men had. During the depression, the dream of owning your own anything was large.
John Steinbeck was explaining a hallucinationish thing that happened to Lennie because he did something wrong. Aunt Clara and rabbits are some of the closest things to him i guess and that made the hallucination a lot scarier to lennie

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