How Does Steinbeck Present George's Identity

Slim gives one of his puppies to Lennie to make him happy and helps Lennie after he crushed Curley’s hand. Slim helps Lennie in order to not get him in trouble and tells Curley what to do with his hand “I think you get your han' caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to” (P. 64). Slim tells a white lie to avoid Lennie getting in trouble. Also, Slim shows his compassion and understanding of George’s pain at the end of the story when George killed Lennie. Slim is the only person that understand George’s lie and says “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me” (P. 107). Slim understand why George has to kill Lennie himself and his feeling. Slim’s action demonstrates that he is a hero; trying to help and be kind to

Slim drowns the four other pups for the good of the mother pup. He knew that the mother could not endure to feed all nine pups. Additionally, George kills Lennie to free him from his possible future torments. Lennie’s mental and physical disability hampers his ability to be normal. As a result, he is precarious in that he himself does not realize his uncontrollable, immense strength.

Before Lennie was shot, Lennie killed Curley's wife, leaving Curley infuriated. Curley went after Lennie, George wanted to get to Lennie first so he said, “we come from the north so he would of went south.” George does this in hopes of buying time so he could get to Lennie first. By this time Lennie was long gone giving George plenty of time to reach him. To support my claim from my first argument i would state that Curley in fact was going after Lennie and George was postponing it as long as possible. After Lennie had been killed Slim was trying to comfort George by saying, “you hadda George. I swear you hadda.” Slim wanted to let George know that he had no other choice. I felt this was important to allow the readers to know that George made the right decision. To conclude there was not a mistake made by killing

Slim insults Lennie in front of George. He replies, “‘He ain’t no cuckoo’, said George. ‘He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy. I ain’t so bright neither, or I would be buckin’ barley for my fifty and found’” (39). George feels the need to defend and protect Lennie, even when Lennie is not around. George wants to persuade people into thinking that Lennie is a normal farm worker. George finds a way to convince people Lennie is normal, by comparing his own work on the farm to Lennie’s work. In later chapters, Curley picks a fight with Lennie. George encourages Lennie to fight Curley. After the fight, Lennie is worried about if he will be fired and what George thinks. Lennie looks for comfort in George, he replies, “You don’t need to be scairt no more. You done jus’ what I tol’ you to” (65). George pressures Lennie to fight Curley. At the beginning of the fight, Lennie does not want to hurt Curly. Lennie looks up to George for guidance and protection. This trait of Lennie’s allows George to make all of Lennie's decisions. This event is the turning point in George’s feelings towards

George saved Lennie by shooting him with a gun in the back of the head. It was fast and painless, but Curley had other plans for Lennie, “We oughtta let ‘im get away. You don’t know that Curley. Curley gont’ta wanta get him lynched. Curley’ll get ‘im killed”( Steinbeck 94). Candy knows that Curely will lynch Lennie if he finds him. George knew he had to find Lennie before Curley. George decided to shoot Lennie because he knew Lennie would have either been locked up in jail his entire life, or have been beaten up and lynched by Curley. After George shoots Lennie, Slim reassures George that he did the right thing, “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda”(Steinbeck 107). George needed Slim to let him know that it was the right thing to do. Slim gave George closure, because George was in awe. George realized he did the right thing after he followed Slim out of the

At this point in time George is still acting as if everything is fine and that their friendship is as strong as ever. George having the gun tries to shoot Lennie many times before he actually does so, “George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the round again.” He cannot bring himself to do it as they’ve been friends for so long. Loneliness rules the end of the novel as George had been a character with support throughout the novel but now he has murdered Lennie and therefore he doesn’t have someone he can properly trust. When the workers find George they assume that he got the gun off Lennie and shot him in self-defense so only Slim really knows what has happened. Slim is the only one that really understands the friendship between George and Lennie and this is significant at the novels ending, “Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes.”

George the smaller leader and Lennie the mentally challenged friend. They travel around looking for jobs. They get a job at a farm when Lennie accidentally kills curley's wife. Which makes George do the unthinkable and kill his friend. This all takes place in California during the dust bowl. George is the protagonist in the book of mice and men by John Steinbeck. Lennie is the antagonist in the novella.

     Many conflicts start to pull George and Lennie apart throughout the whole book. George gets tired of dealing with all the bad thing Lennie does, therefore he ends up killing his best friend as much as he did not want to. When Lennie killed Curley’s wife George knew it was over so George decided to put a end to his missery before someone else killed him. George is forced to shoot Lennie in the back of the head because of the incident that occured. The men do not understand why a best friend would kill another best friend so they all leave in confusion. The only person who understands is Slim. Slim knows what George goes through and understands why he did it. Friendship has to end somewhere no matter how deep the friendship is.

4. George is describing to Slim the predominantly negative effects he’s observed of being a “lone wolf” in this field of work. He explains how keeping Lennie around saves him from getting angry and fighting and shutting everyone out. The two have bonded together and both rely on the other’s companionship as well as the hope of a brighter future where they own a stake of land together.

George afterward agrees to what Slim says about locking Lennie up. George knew that if he didn't kill Lennie that the state may send him to an insane asylum if Curley didn't find him first. So it was clear to George that he had to kill Lennie, as a result, he wouldn't be caged up the rest of his

George was the most important character in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; if he was not in the book Lennie would not have had anyone to guide him in the right direction. George also changed the most throughout the duration of the book. He went from a determined working man, whose only worries were caring for Lennie and finding a job, to a man whose end goal was completing his dream of living on a small farm with Lennie and Candy, owning rabbits and other livestock so they could “.. live off the fatta the lan’” (Steinbeck 14)

“If he tangles with you, Lennie, we’re gonna get the can. Don’t make no mistake about that. He’s the boss’s son. Look, Lennie. You try to keep away from him, will you? Don’t never speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the room. Will you do that, Lennie?” (Steinbeck, pg. 29) John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a tale about what it means to have a relationship. Steinbeck's story of George and Lennie's goal of obtaining their own ranch, and the challenges of reaching that goal, shows the nature of dreams, dignity, loneliness, and sacrifice. Lennie, the giant with mental issues who makes George's aim of owning his own ranch beneficial, ironically becomes the biggest challenge to achieving that goal. One of the most important characters in this story is George because he is different from all the other men of his time. The two words that best describe this character are bossy and diligent.

George killed Lennie because Slim was looking for him to shoot him the the gut so he could watch him suffer so George shot him the head so he didn’t have to suffer. George should not have killed Lennie because Lennie is disabled, they could have ran and hid somewhere, they may come after George now that he has killed Lennie

George, a character in Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck was “small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose.” (Steinbeck, Pg.2) George was Caucasian and it looked as if he had stepped out of an old movie containing drifters, better known as migrant workers. Although physically George was very small, he had complete control over his companion Lennie, the way a father controls a son.

In the book, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the author gives the reader information by showing the actions of the characters, instead of telling the reader what they are thinking. He does this particularly well with the character George. From the first description of George, much is revealed about his character. He is shown to be “...small and quick…” (p.2) and has “...sharp, strong features…” (p.2)