Character Analysis Of George In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In western America during the 1930s was a time when the American Depression was in full effect as well as the dust bowl. This lead millions of Americans to lose their jobs, homes, and families. During this time most people were alone and going from job to job, these people were called migrant workers. George was a migrant working and similar to most people, George is drifting job to job, trying to save enough money to buy a piece of land, but unlike most people George isn’t alone in this endeavor. George has Lennie and Lennie has George. After reading the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the character George left the biggest impression on me. My impressions of George is that he is a character who doesn’t want to be alone in a time when everyone was alone, he is an intelligent person who understands what he is doing, and that George is the one who truly got hurt at the end of the story. George would be alone if it wasn’t for …show more content…
Him not wanting to be alone left the biggest impression on me because that’s something that is so real and it’s something that no one wants. George is the most relatable character in the story Of Mice and Men because of this. At the end of the story George is alone, and that’s the saddest part of the novella, not that Lennie dies. Something happening to Lennie was inevitable, wherever he went he screwed something up. The real tragedy is that George sees this repetitive cycle of what happens in every town he and Lennie go to. George and Lennie could still run to a new town and flee at the end of the story, but George is too smart to think that something like Lennie killing Curley’s wife won’t happen again. George saves Lennie from a more painful death, but in return has to kill his best friend, be alone, and give up on his