Of Mice and Men 1) The relationship between George Milton and Lennie Small is similar to a relationship between a father and son. Like a father, George cares for Lennie by always keeping him out of harms way and in more than one occasion keeping him out of trouble,“But not us! An’ why? Because…because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you and that’s why.” (p.15). No matter what Lennie does wrong George sticks by him and helps him when he is needed most. Like when they were run out of Weed. George was there to make sure he wasn’t killed, because Lennie was accused of raping a girl. When all he really did was feel her dress, “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is, he wants to touch ever’thing he likes. Just wants to feel it. So he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ‘cause that’s the only thing he …show more content…
Yet when George appears he seems solemnly quiet and refuses to yell at Lennie. Like in the beginning of the story Lennie made the same offer to go off and live in a cave and once more Lennie said no. This gave Lennie the impression he was going to stay but in short time he would be dead. Lennie asked to hear the same farm story from the beginning of the book again, “We’ll have a cow. An’ we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens…an’ down the flat we’ll have a… little piece alfalfa-”(p.103). Except this time was different, George began pulling out Carlson’s Luger and raising it to Lennie’s head. By the time the others had found Lennie and George, Lennie was already dead, “He pulled the trigger. the crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.”
At the end of the book, George had to shoot Lennie in order to protect him from a painful death. While he was about to shoot Lennie, he had him stare out into the woods as he told Lennie the story of the farm. Here is a quote I found, “Lennie giggled with happiness… George raised the gun… He pulled the trigger.”
In the story, Lennie accompanies George in their quest to find a job. This is the cause for many of the things that Lennie says and does. In the beginning when they are heading to the farm. Lennie, forgetting what their plan was, asks where they were going.
In the novel, Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, placed the character, George Milton, with a predicament of killing his life-long best friend, Lennie Small. George knew he didn’t have another option other than to kill Lennie. He made his decision based on many different factors: George finally realized how much trouble Lennie caused him, he knew Curley would brutally kill Lennie, and George did not want to have the regret Candy had about not killing his dog himself. Lennie and George had the ideal brotherly love, which was very uncommon during this time-period.
Next, if George didn 't do it then Curley and the rest of the farm workers would have killed Lennie. It was better that someone who actually knew and cared about Lennie killed him, instead of strangers who didn 't understand that Lennie is harmless. “ ‘Don’t shoot ‘im?’ Curley cried. ‘He got Carlsons Luger ‘Course we’ll shoot ‘im’ ”
In the book Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are some characters who are good, and some who are bad. I chose Curley, George, and Curley’s wife , because I thought they were the most interesting characters in this book. I chose Curley for no empathy because, Curley didn’t care about anyone except for his wife, and I think that Curley didn’t even care about her wife, it was just lust. Curley was also rude towards everyone and, he even attacked people who he thinks were with her wife. At the end, when Lennie killed Curley’s wife, Curley wanted Lennie dead, he didn’t care if someone like George will be hurt by killing his own friend, he just wanted him dead.
After Lennie’s Aunt Clara dies, George took in Lennie as his own. He promised to keep Lennie safe from the outside world, considering his problems. It is not common to see two men traveling together, but because of their situation, they have to stick by each other's side. Because...because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why” (14). Lennie creates tasks and goals while George figures out how they can reach these goals.
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck portrays the relationship between George and Lennie as very dominating yet caring. George has been a father type figure to Lennie ever since he started taking care of him. With George being a father figure to Lennie, that means he has to watch over him, keep him out of trouble, and love him, which he did. In the very dominate relationship between George and Lennie, George has a very dominate roll.
In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two Depression-era ranch workers named George Milton and Lennie Smalls find themselves traveling around the country, looking for work. After Lennie’s Aunt Clara passes away, George is left to watch out for Lennie, who constantly finds himself in the middle of conflicts. He does everything he can to keep Lennie away from trouble, even if their close friendship raises suspicion at work. In the end, Lennie once again creates trouble for himself, only this time it’s worse and it’s up to George to protect him from facing consequences.
To begin with, starting off the story you notice the bound these two characters share for one another. “George said, I want you to stay with me, Lennie”. Which is said very early on, it starts to show the reader a bit of understanding to this unbreakable relationship which
From the day that Lennie’s Aunt Clara died and from the day George took Lennie in as a friend George was always there for him. If Lennie did not have George, Lennie would have no one to protect him and save him from all of the bad things that he has done. Despite all of the dangers and problems Lennie got George and himself into, George benefited and also learned from Lennie’s mistakes. George needs his ignorant sidekick as much as Lennie needs George.
In Soledad California, during the 1920’s we find George and Lennie, the two main characters. Two friends that have a very unique relationship. George is a short man with sharp features and quick wits, where as Lennie is a big man with a round face and is a just like a large child. They are lowly workers that bounce from ranch to ranch looking for work, in search of their unique american dream. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George becomes more understanding and friendly towards Lennie through the beginning, middle and ending of the novella.
In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, how were George and Lennie able to remain friends even though it seemed odd to most people? Although George struggles to take care of Lennie, he remains best friends with him throughout the entire book and helps him. “The relationship between George and Lennie is an oddity to everyone at the farm, but especially to the boss who can not possibly believe that two men could be so strongly attached unless they were blood relatives” (Newman, 37) This paper will focus on why George felt so connected to Lennie and felt the need to protect and take care of him. A lesson that can be taken from Of Mice and Men is that friendship can change the way a person is and cause them to love someone as if they are family.
George found out and goes to find Lennie before anyone else. So he can have the last moment before he George does something that ends their friendship along with the troubles from Lennie. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head the hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied he pulled the trigger the crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering” (Steinbeck chpt 6). George ends up killing Lennie himself. This must of been very hard for him because even though Lennie was a hassle, George remembers when they were together and how they had hopes and dreams of having a farm together and that they had a good
Lennie Small is a rather large and mentally disabled man. His mental disability is what ultimately kills him in the end, as he has no control over his immense strength. This is shown through the many mice that he had killed, which is proven during Lennie and George’s conversation about mice. Lennie talked about his Aunt Clara, his mother figure in a sense, and how she always used to give him mice. George proceeded to tell Lennie “An’ she stopped givem ‘em to ya.
When the book Mice and Men starts, We meet two of the main characters named Lennie Small, and George Milton. Lennie acts as if he is a lunatic. George acts if he was Lennies father. The men are heading towards a ranch in order to work. We learn Lennie is fascinated with touching the softness of items such as a dress, which got them ran out of their last home.