Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in of mice and men to put the readers in suspense as they might think something like that is going to happen for example when candys dog was shot that is foreshadowed into when George shots lennie and this is foreshadowing because when someone shot candys dog he felt really upset as they where together for so long aswell as George and lennie because they where friends for so long and the went everywhere with eachother until lennie weren’t too far and he killed someone and then George shot lennie.