The dream dies when Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife in the barn. Lennie doesn't know his own strength and wants to stroke Curley's wife's hair. He accidentally jerks her neck back and kills her by accident. Once George realizes that the woman was a victim of Lennie's strength, which he himself, does not realize how powerful it is, he knows that all the dreams they had together have died.
George makes a dramatic, courageous decision to shoot Lennie, so that his simple-minded, child-like friend with the super human strength does not have to go to prison and face execution. Or worse, to be lynched right there on the spot by Curley and his men.
George's life is dramatically changed once he kills Lennie. Even though the burden of caring for Lennie was sometimes a heavy one, he loved him like a brother. George will mourn for Lennie, feeling guilty that he could not protect his friend once more from his own strength and simpleness.
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