When you promise to care for someone's life who can’t take care of their own, would you take on the task or just brush it off your shoulder. George broke a promise to someone he's known his entire life. How can that be someone who is considered a good caretaker. George and Lennie are the odd match. George worked for Lennie’s aunt and when she passed george and lennie stuck together. At first George had taken advantage of Lennie to the point which was life threatening for lennie. After when george seemed to care about Lennie it seemed that george was still used to bossing Lennie around. Just like second nature or a bad habit. George would threaten lennie when he was frustrated, not only would he mentally abuse him, he didn’t take the responsibility of being Lennie’s caretaker. …show more content…
An example of this statement is the following quote, when Lennie was holding on to a mouse and won’t let go: “Lennie hesitated, backed away, looked wildly at the brush line as though he contemplated running for his freedom. George said coldly, "You gonna give me that mouse or do I have to sock you?" George is being verbally violent, which is usually unhealthy in a friendship. George seemed to show signs of not caring about Lennie. George knew of Lennie’s condition yet he seemed to be cruel anyway. Lennie loves George, but George is ashamed of Lennie, as proven in this quote. "You said I was your cousin, George." "Well, that was a lie. An' I'm damn glad it was. If I was a relative of yours I'd shoot myself." In this quote, George had told some of the guys that he and Lennie are cousins, and then Lennie tells him “you said I was your cousin,” and George is ashamed and says he would never want to be related to him. George is affectionate towards Lennie, as proven by this quote: "I wasn't kicked in the head with no horse, was I,
That ain’t no good.” (STEINBECK 41) George and Lennie were both born in the same town, and raised up together. George knew his Aunt Clara very well, and after she passed away, George took Lennie as his own. Sure, George may not have had to stay, but he still kind of did have
In a way, George was like a parent or a big brother to Lennie. He scolded Lennie and yelled at him, but, all in all, George was just looking out for him. Readers see how George is like a guardian to Lennie in the first chapter when George says, “Lennie!... For god’ sakes don’t drink so much... Lennie.
Not to mention, what happened back in Weed. Lennie always finds a way to get into trouble and George was tired of running from town to town because of Lennie. George felt like Lennie was his responsibility and he had to protect him. That is a lot of responsibility to put on someone. Lennie was going to die one way or another.
First of all Lennie had an aunt Clara that passed away and George told her he would take care of Lennie. ‘’ I told his old lady I d take care of him. ’’ Since Lennie can't take care of himself
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.
As I Read "Mice And Men" I Came Across Many Different Characters With Many Different Personalities. The Most Sympathetic Character In This Book Is Lennie. Lennie Gets The Worst Treatment Because He Has A Disability. There Are So Many Reason Why I Feel Lennie Is The Most Sympathetic.
We all may have had the feeling of loneliness and isolation, wanting companionship feeling abandonment. In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, there are men living on a ranch having their own reasons for loneliness or being isolated. The three characters Crooks, George, and Lennie crusade dealing with own ways of loneliness and isolation. Crooks has no one that likes him because he’s black, Lennie struggles mentally and George struggles with always having to care for him. They all can’t decide whether it is that they want to be alone or not.
George would protect Lennie at all costs even from himself. After Lennie kills a young woman, George decides it is better for Lennie to be dead rather than to be tortured and kept in a cell or a mental asylum. The decision of killing Lennie hit George like a train, but he knew it was something that was in Lennie’s own good. Knowing he could have an easier life without Lennie, George still kept him around because he needed George and George needed Lennie. George tells Slim “Course Lennie’s a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin’ around with a guy an’ you can’t get rid of him.”
Between George and Lennie, everyone believed that George was only there for Lennie because Lennie needed help and someone to take care of him; however, the friendship between the two men is somewhat balanced. Lennie cared about George and needed someone to look after him and George did not want to be lonely. George had many justified reasons to kill Lennie. George believed that if Lennie stayed alive, he could have hurt more people and caused them to have to run away again. However, George knew what was best for Lennie even if it was him not living any longer.
Moreover, George feels that Lennie is not worthy of his help and even though something may have happened to him, George feels that it is not necessary to get up and check on him like any friend would do. Constantly being the puppeteer of one and pulling their strings could harm them once you are gone. Since George is always by Lennie’s side, the one time he leaves with his friends, Lennie can’t handle the situation he is in. ‘“I don’t want ta hurt you,” he said, “‘but George’ll be mad if you yell”’(Steinbeck 91). Lennie doesn’t have George by his side to tell him what he did was wrong, so he continues to hurt Curley’s wife without knowing what he’s doing is
The novella ‘of Mice and Men’ was written by John Steinbeck in the 1930s. It is set in a difficult period of time when America was sunk in deep depression. However, themes of loyalty shine brightly throughout the novella. He shows that even though Americas economy is in tatters, loyalty can still be as prominent. There were also distinct themes of disloyalty, mainly between characters.
George treated Lennie like a brother, he loved Lennie very dearly from the beginning to the
Everyone Gets Stereotyped Stereotyping others can lead to problems in the future and can cause people to become upset. When the characters George and Lennie from the book Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, are first introduced its easy to tell George stereotypes Lennie as stupid. Since Lennie is stereotyped as stupid, he causes problems throughout the book. George is also stereotyped, but as protective of Lennie. Throughout the book George tries to help Lennie as much as he can, even if it leads to a bad situation.
After hearing this, he expresses his pity towards Lennie and his inability to listen. Early in the novella, George lashes out in anger towards Lennie, he says, “ ‘An whatta I got,’ George went on furiously. ‘I got you! You can 't keep a job and you
"Of mice and men" a novel by John Steinbeck which will be discussed in this paragraph evaluating two specific points, one of them is that George did the right thing by killing Lennie for many circumstances to be discussed later; and the second is about George was not supposed to kill Lennie under any reason because the life of every human being must be respected by every person in the world. George, seeing that Lennie did not have the ability to live on his own, always got into very serious problems and seeing that neither of them could get ahead because of those motives as you can see in the next quote: "I done a real bad thing," he said. "I shouldn 't of did that. George 'll be mad.