George and Lennie are two very different characters. George is described as a "slim, small, quick, dark-featured, and restless man with sharp, strong features" (Steinbeck 2). Lennie is the exact opposite, described as a huge man with a shapeless face, with large, pale eyes, and with wide, sloping…
George is a minuscule, intelligent young man who takes care of Lennie. He helps supervise Lennie’s behavior and helps get their money. George is a quick-tempered, harsh man when he has to deal with Lennie, especially when he gets in trouble. Lennie and George care for one another, even when George constantly talks about how his life would be superior if he didn’t have to take care of Lennie. George is like a father to Lennie because he’s constantly there for him and he knows what’s best for Lennie.…
He is a short-tempered but a loving and devoted friend, whose never weaken his commitment to protecting his friend. George’s first words in the book was a warning to Lennie not to drink so much otherwise he might get sick, set the tone of their relationship. George may be terse and impatient at times, but he never strays from his primary purpose of protecting Lennie. They have the master/dog relationship.…
The relationship between george and lennie had their ups and downs, Lennie’s problems would always seem to get them in trouble. Lennie wasn’t the smartest in the world so he often needed help with his…
George and lennie are best friends but george is lennie’s caretaker but it's hard for george because lennie gets in trouble…
Throughout the book, “Of Mice and Men” George is Lennie’s everything! From dusk to dawn he is Lennie’s caretaker, friend, and he also works in place of himself and Lennie, too! He doesn’t have the easiest job in the world, either. He is faced with many challenges throughout the book. I do believe that towards the end George was finally getting enough, and he was getting tired of watching Lennie struggle. It got the best of him in a way.…
In both the movie and the book lennie is said to be very strong , which he is, but because he is so different from all of the other workers, he does not know how to control his strength. Since lennie he is not like many other workers he does not act the same. Lennie is a man of many different actions. Some bad, some good, and some are just completely unordinary. Even though george does not make it seem at times that he does not want Lennie around, he really does.…
Even though Lennie doesn't always obey George, he is willing to give up what he wants to do in order for George and him to stay together. Lennie does this because he truly cares about George.…
They both have very good chemistry and they like to talk about the same things most of the time, but since Lennie isn't all the way there, he might ask the same thing over even though he knows them by heart. I mean, if George wants to repeat himself he can, but it's nice to know that George can care for other people when he wants to care for them. Their partnership is also about how they have each other's back no matter what they both do, it's like if they are a shield for each other when needed the most. Even though George is the one with the street smarts, and he know what he's doing, he can also think about what he's going to do before he does anything. Lennie on the other hand is the more caring and loving one, but he's also slow. Which is okay because if George is friends with him, there shouldn't be any problem between them, because again they care for each other which is very surprising of George, since he seems like the type of person who wouldn't care about anything or…
Lennie was born with a disability that causes mental retardation, because of this he doesn´t always know right from wrong and acts like a kid. He shows this when he gets upset at George for taking away his dead mouse that he hid in his pocket. George tells him that he can say a word when they get to the ranch that they are going to work at, if he does then they might not be hired because of Lennie's impairment. George says to Lennie, ¨If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won´t get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set¨ (6). This tells us that…
In the beginning of the book lennie forgets where they are going, why, and what happened to his work pass george became irritated very quickly with lennie not remembering and asking so many questions. So george starts yelling at lennie he also took the mouse lennie was petting as they were walking and george proceeded to be very rude and short with lennie as they continue to walk. Also george used to pick on lennie and tell him to do dumb stuff that could get him hurt or even killed. George understands that lennie is very different but because he doesn't remember and has to ask so many questions irritates george. Lennie doesn't understand why george gets angry with him he just want to be good and stay out of…
Throughout the novella George protects Lennie to much. His mental retardation was a problem that couldn’t be solved, however learning experience would have benefitted Lennie and helped him understand situations better, rather than George repeatedly protecting him every step of his life. He was always responsible for Lennie and that shouldn’t have been the case. Humans should fend for themselves, if everyone picks us up everytime we will never learn how to fend on our own. What George did is exactly what someone’s not suppose to do and that’s repeatly pick someone back up. We saw in Of men and mice what happens when one does that. Lennie just keep doing what he was doing because George never punished him for it. Instead George protected Lennie throughout the whole novella. For example, when George shoots Lennie in the back of the head at the end of the novella. “Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place.” (103). George even brings comfort to Lennie in his final moments. Lennie never learned how to fend for himself and that was the demise of…
In the beginning of the story, George escaped with Lennie from Weed to prevent Lennie from getting lynched. George did absolutely nothing, he had nothing to hide from. Also George warned Lennie about Curley, he told him that he has seen people like that before and demanded Lennie to stay away from Curley (Steinbeck 29). In addition, in order to make sure Lennie got the job, George talked for him (Steinbeck 21). George is like a parent to Lennie, from the beginning we see how he told Lennie that the water he was drinking from didn’t seem potable. He told Lennie to throw the mice away, not to be mean but because it was already dead, it wasn’t fresh. Lennie acted acted like a child and George acted like a parent, he said and did stuff similar to what a parent would. He did all that because he cared for…
First Lennie Philologically is much larger then George. Physically George is not that big. The best way to describe George would be he is a small quick man “The first man was small and quick, Dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features” (2). Steinbeck made George smaller just to portray brains vs. bronze. With George being so small he has to rely on his own mind more than his strength. Lennie is a giant of a man that towers over every one. Lennie is a monster of a man that towers over every one. Lennie is a monster of a man “Behind him [George] walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide sloped shoulders” (2). Lennie is one of the best workers on the ranch “But he’s sure a hell of a good worker. Strong as a bull” (22). Though Lennie may not be the brightest person he is the strongest person on the ranch by far and knows how to do just about anything manual labor wise on the ranch. If you compare Lennie to George you would see a monster of a man towering over a smaller man but the smaller man would be smarter.…
Many have argued that George did the wrong thing of killing Lennie and that this makes him a bad friend. George isn’t a great friend either. He’s grumpy and bossy. The way George behaves towards Lennie is just very horrible.” if I was alone I could live so easy. ..No messes at all…stay in a cat house all night… I could put you in a cage…” George may have exploded and spilt all that anger out by mistake but when someone says things like that part of it must be true. George has his moment of frustration and that understandable but Lennie is like a child and they too make mistakes so Lennie can’t be blamed for being born with a mental disorder. He also makes lennie seem like a burden. “Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’ mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go geta job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all…” Lennie can bring trouble to a person’s way of living. He has to be looked after and it makes George question and blurt out that taking responsibility of Lennie is too much to handle. These quotes signify that George had in fact been a bad of a friend he was to Lennie.…