George And Lennie Relationship Analysis

George even uses Lennie’s need as leverage to keep him under control. Lennie strives to hold responsibility. Unfortunately, Lennie tends to hurt the animals that he does receive. He is too strong for the animals that she cares for. During their journey from Weed, Lennie tends to a mouse, only to end up killing the fragile creature. Later on, George gets Lennie a puppy that Lennie regretfully kills with his power. Lennie’s good intentions fell short in comparison to his power. Lennie was looking for responsibility in pets but took on too much when the animals would be killed by his overwhelming strength.

The author, Steinbeck, uses his own personal experience to “serve as an inspiration…” (Johnson 1) when writing this particular story. His past experiences also helped him for the future. Lennie, of all characters, is the least dynamic. He undergoes a significant amount of change and develops throughout the story. He has been isolated with George throughout his life. His sole purpose in life is to make George happy and to own a farm with George and take care of the soft rabbits. Lennie is the most innocent and defenseless. He also is the largest and strongest, which does not help in certain situations. Lennie is the protagonist in the story. He gains the readers sympathy by his intellectual disability and helplessness. Lennie murders things by accident such as the mouse in his pocket, the puppy and Curley’s wife. He enjoys the touch of and somehow uses those murders and experiences to scare him from doing it again. George’s opinion means the most to him.

Lennie shows his naiveness in many different ways, such as him being forgetful and having a thing for soft objects. “Lennie look startled and then in embarrassment hid his face against his knees. ‘I forgot again.’”(6) By Lennie saying, “I forgot again” in the quote helps the reader understand that it is not the first time Lennie has forgot something. Since Lennie is forgetful, society views him differently. “Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse, George. I didn’t kill it. Honest! I found it dead.”(5) “Aw, let me have it George.”(5) Society normally wants nothing to do with mice, but these two quotes show us that Lennie is not like everybody else. These two quotes also lead one to make the assumption that Lennie lacks in wisdom and

In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses the symbolism of mice to strengthen the idea that Lennie does not understand his own strength. Lennie is not aware of how physically strong he is due to his mental disability. Lennie likes petting soft things hence why he likes to have pet mice and dreams of tending rabbits. Lennie doesn’t realize the major difference between his strength and the mouse’s strength when he says, “‘they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead―because they was so little’” (10). This quote illustrates the innocence of the mice, but also the inability of the mice to protect themselves against Lennie’s physical strength. Prior to Lennie saying this, Steinbeck shows Lennie’s innocence as well

For example George had to tell Lennie not to drink too much water or else he would get sick like he did the night before. Lennie was also described like an animal when Steinbeck described Lennie’s hand as a ‘paw’ which a dog also has. Also just like George seeks a sense of comfort from Lennie so does Candy from his dog.

Throughout the book Lennie has not changed at all really because he forgets things and also cannot remember everything well at all. Because of this Lennie can’t really change in this book at all. Though little changes have occurred. He was once a gentle giant but now realizes how dangerous he really is. Lennie is a loving person that loves soft and hairy animals. He likes rabbits, rats, mice, and dogs. He likes animals that are soft to the touch. George does not like the idea of Lennie holding young animals or mice and rats because he will kill them on accident and does not want Lennie petting a dead mouse or dog. On page 9 in “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck writes, “I wasn’t doin’ nothing bad with it, George. Jus’ strokin’ it.’ George stood up and threw the mouse as far as he could into the darkening brush, then he stepped to the pool and washed his hands.” Lennie is stroking a dead mouse when George notices and takes the mouse from him and throws it as far as he can. This shows how Lennie likes furry and hairy things. But when he handles them he accidentally kills them because he is too strong and doesn’t know how to control it.

In the first chapter of ‘Of Mice and Men’, George discovers that Lennie had been keeping dead mice in his pocket. Lennie insists on an unlikely story, that the mice were already dead when he found them. This shows the audience that although Lennie does not mean to kill the mice, it keeps recurring because he is completely unaware of his own strength. Later on in the story, Lennie kills one of Slim’s puppies. He was warned to be gentle and keep the pup with its mother but didn’t listen.

John Steinbeck’s story, Of Mice and Men, is a book about two friends, George and Lennie, who travel around the country working together. George is a small man who is in charge of taking care of Lennie, his big huge friend who is mentally disabled. This in itself helps to provoke sympathy from people reading the book due to his increased responsibilities, however there are more things that occur to make us sympathize with George. When things happen to Lennie, like when Lennie gets into a fight and depends on George for instruction on how to handle things, is another important example of things that happen in the book, making George’s hardships apparent, which make people have an increasing amount of sympathy towards him. Also, at the end of the book, George is pushed to shoot Lennie because of the bad things he accidentally did, which had extremely bad criminal consequences.

First, chapter ones claim, Lennie has a connection with mice and his aunt Clara. In chapter one, Lennie and George are arguing about the mouse, Lennie says “‘ I don’t know why I can’t keep it. It ain’t nobody’s mouse’” (Steinbeck 4). Lennie

George Milton and Lennie Smalls face many obstacles in Of Mice and Men with tolerance and rationality. When constructing a background on these characters, Steinbeck includes an occasion in which Lennie is accused of rape. This protagonist (who is assumed of mild intellectual disability) wants to feel a woman’s dress for sensory pleasure, but the woman reacts in fear of being sexually assaulted by Lennie. This causes the two to flee from the town of Weed, and take this incident as learning opportunity. “Lennie - if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush,” (Steinbeck 15). In this piece of dialogue where George is talking to Lennie, George is acknowledging the naturality of his experience with plans going off course, and he uses this as a way to secure his and Lennie’s safety by taking precautionary measures. George’s enlightened viewpoint on this situation is vital in Steinbeck’s attempts to reveal the truth about the habits of life duration.

In “Of Mice and Men”, Lennie is known for his childlike behavior. He proves this in many ways throughout the book. In section One, Lennie attempts to hide a mouse in his pocket from George. George does not fall for Lennie’s trick and Lennie reluctantly hands over the dead mouse. “Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring his ball to his master, Lennie approached, drew back, approached again. George snapped his fingers sharply, and at the sound Lennie laid the mouse in his hand.” (Steinbeck 9). Lennie’s shows his immaturity because much like a child, he knows he is not supposed to have a dead mouse in his pocket, yet tries to hide it from George so he can keep it. Many children would also

As the reader imagines Lennie as a mad dog, due to Steinbeck’s utilization of animal imagery to dehumanize Lennie, the fact that he now has killed would lead the reader to conclude that this mad dog should be put down. Since Steinbeck presented the reader with such a situation earlier in the story, when Candy’s dog is put down, the reader knows that a master is crippled with regret if they do not put their animal out of its misery by their

One of the main causes for the cycle that George and Lennie lived in was Lennie’s innocence and misunderstanding of his actions. Throughout Of mice and men, Lennie is often times distracted by the little things in life, almost as if he had the mentality of a child. “”I like to pet nice things. Once at a fair I seen some long-haired rabbits. An’ they was, you bet. Sometimes i’ve even pet mice, but not when I could get nothing better”(90). The way Lennie describes and speaks about the rabbits

In the famous novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there are two amazing characters, George Milton and Lennie Small. George and Lennie are the main characters in this novel and have a very strong connection. Lennie Small is mentally disabled, and is also really strong, but he does not yet know that he is strong. George is a very smart, yet an uneducated man, but unlike Lennie he is very weak. George needs Lennie as much as Lennie needs George. Lennie tells George, “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why” (1.115-116).

In the book Of Mice And Men we are brandished the similar relationships of George and Lennie and Candy and his dog. Candy shows that his dog meant the world to him by resisting the quick and painless gun shot to his dogs head. Candy says "Well hell. I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. Herded sheep with him" (44). Just like Candy’s relationship George had a similar relationship with his friend Lennie. Lennie made a mistake in his life by killing someone and had to be shot just like Candy’s dog quick and painless. George explains how he takes care of Lennie because that’s exactly what he promised Lennie’s Aunt Clara. We see foreshadowing in these tragic events when we are told that Lennie was just getting worse and worse in his sickness