Essay On George And Lennie's Relationship

Of Mice and Men is a story about two men, one of them mentally handicapped, trying to make money during the Great Depression The story and the film properly portray how a relationship can be when one member of the relationship greatly depends on the other person. And although Lennie was very dependent on George, that aspect helped form George and Lennie 's relationship. I love the book Of Mice and Men. The story of mice and men is not a long book, but in a short amount of time John Steinbeck adds lots of layers to the characters which help form your perspective of them. When Steinbeck was writing, he used a lot of tiny details to build the characters ' personalities. For example, in the book it says " The meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young." In …show more content…
In the book Curly 's was described as extremely short. That was part of the justification for why Curly acted like he did and you could say he had "Short Man Syndrome". But in the movie he wasn 't that much shorter that a lot of the other characters. Another difference with the characters was Lennie 's height. In the book Lennie was supposed to be huge. It even says, " His shoulders could fill the doorway." Even though he was tall he was not as big as he was made to be in the book. The last difference I will talk about is when Lennie, Candy, and Crooks were talking. In the movie they were the only people in the room and no one else came in but the book was a completely different story. In the book while the three of them were talking Curly 's Wife came in and said that she would get him hanged. I think that if that would have happened in the movie I would view her differently and she probably wouldn 't be one of my favorite characters. The movie not putting that part in changed her character