Characters in Of Mice and Men Essay

Courageous or cowardly? Caring about other people is not a constant theme in the book “Of Mice and Men”, so when George Milton took initiative and killed his best friend it took everyone by surprise. By this act of courageous love, he saved his best friend from a lifetime of suffering. In the story, Steinbeck creates a situation that only has one right solution, and George did just that. There are many reasons why what George did for Lennie was the best solution for the situation, including what…

In 1937, John Steinbeck wrote the fictional story Of Mice and Men. This book is the story about two characters, George and Lennie, who travel around California together looking for jobs. This story demonstrates the friendship that the two characters have and some hardships that they face along the way. Lennie is a huge, shapeless faced, childlike man who is reliant upon George. Lennie is also very forgetful. Lennie’s characteristics provide reason to believe that he has some type of mental…

Steinbeck establishes George as a strong and reliable character through direct characterization and his struggle to achieve his unrealistic American Dream of owning a farm with Lennie. His presence in the story helps to build the theme of loss because of something you cannot control. George exemplifies his strength through his independent attitude and life experiences with Lennie. Despite these good qualities, George’s goal will never be realistic because he has to take care of Lennie- who will…

of yours has special needs does that make everything alright? In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George is a bad friend to Lennie because, he does not understand the true meaning behind friendship. Throughout the story Of Mice and Men George is verbally abusive to Lennie. Lennie and George are walking to the ranch where they will soon work. Lennie then realized he could not find…

“The silence was in the room again. A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man.” Chapter 3 of the novel Of Mice and Men describes how Carlson, a man that works in the same Ranch as Candy, kills Candy’s old dog. Candy is an old man that works in the Ranch in Soledad, he has no arm and cleans the bunkhouse, where all the workers from the Ranch sleep in. I think it was right for Candy to let Carlson kill his old dog because he was really old, smelly, blind and had no…

Lennie and George’s American Dream was what gave them hope; however, not all hope was lost. George could still be independent and live on his own ranch, though it would not be the same without Lennie, “tending the rabbits”. In Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice Of Men, vigorous altruistic George learns from candy’s regrets that if one loves something, let it go. Lennie did not mean to kill the mouse, the puppy, nor curley’s wife; he is juvenile and unaware of his own strength. This is curley’s excuse to…

Lennie Smalls is a character in John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, who is just like any other person on the ranch, searching for his American Dream. Although, for Lennie and many others, achieving this dream will be impossible. Lennie is a mentally handicapped outcast that is constantly dehumanized by being compared to that of an animal. The author describes him as a man with a “shapeless face” who “drags his feet like a bear drags his paws” . Throughout the entire novella he is…

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers, George and Lennie, from California during the great depression. George and Lennie fled from Weed after Lennie unknowingly grabbed and held onto a woman’s dress and he was accused of rape. The men made their way towards a new farm where they planned to make a stake and eventually buy a small plot of land where they would live by themselves. George and Lennie both expected a similar outcome from their new job, but they had different…

Of Mice and Men: “George- you asleep?” “No. Whatta you want?” “Let’s have different color rabbits, George.” “Sure we will,” George said sleepily. “Red and Blue and green rabbits, Lennie. Millions of ’em.” “Furry ones, George, like I seen in the fair in Sacramento.” “Sure, furry ones.” “’Cause I can jus’ as well go away, George, an’ Live in a cave.” “You can jus’ as well go to hell,” said George. “Shut up now.” (17) (18) Lennie had Cognitive disabilities. Cognitive disabilities affect a…

time you either physically or emotionally harmed one of your best friends? Hopefully your answer to that is “NO”, because if you said “yes” or even had to think twice then you have a trait of a bad friend. In the novela “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck the two main characters George and Lennie are the “best of friends”. At Least that’s how it’s supposed to be presented. Within the novella George and Lennie have had their ups and down. However I feel as though they have had more downs and…