Lennie faced a lot of dilemmas in “Of Mice and Men” and Cosmo has faced some dilemmas in his show. Lennie was faced with the choice of doing right or wrong, the tricky thing is he doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong. He just remembers (sometimes) what George tells him. Lennie doesn’t know what is right and what is wrong so when a woman yells because he is pulling her hair too hard he covers her mouth and suffocated her. The reason he did this was because George told him not to mess with her and if he does he could get them in a lot of trouble and possibly ruin their dream of having a farm together.
I can go away any time,” proves that Lennie will do anything for George. This is the main difference between the two friends is that they have very distinctive philosophical views. Lennie is a committed dreamer as all he thinks about is the rabbits he can attend to when they get the farm. Lennie said, “Let’s have different color rabbits, George.” He want different colored rabbits although that isn’t possible to do clarifying the idea of him being a dreamer. As the opposite, George said, “I think I knowed from the very first.
Although George and Lennie believe their ambition is well planned, they soon realize their dream is only up to fate. Lennie and George have been constantly on the run, and want to settle down. They want to buy their own piece of land, where no boss can kick them out. When it rains, they want to be able to stay inside and not have to worry about working. Lennie is also very pleased with their goal because he will tend the rabbits.
George and Lennie know that their dream will take time and hard work. George and Lennie in the story Of Mice and Men, reveal the challenges and struggles one must go through because the American Dream is so difficult to attain. John Steinbeck wanted to show you the amount of work and heart you have to give to conquer your dreams; that most people cannot overcome the work you have to go through because they are too lazy or that something goes wrong and it is no longer attainable. For George, it was the death of Lennie that made the American Dream unattainable. Overall, the American Dream is different for everyone, but it is still a great challenge and it is hard to accomplish for
Lennie loves George and counts on him a lot of the time. Lennie values George and his belief of tending the rabbits. Lennie also loves soft things like mice, pups, girls’ dresses, and hair which produce terrible results. Lennie is utterly helpless and totally defenseless. Lennie doesn’t know right from wrong and this leads to a terrible outcome.
Throughout a vast majority of George and Lennie’s life their friendship has grown into a exquisite thing. In the beginning of the novel, George promises to get Lennie a puppy, because he knows mice are too fragile for him. If George didn’t care for Lennie, he wouldn’t care about how he felt about the animals. George wants Lennie to be happy. By George showing he wants Lennie to be happy, it shows the reader that their friendship has grown.
Lennie’s dream is to tend the soft haired rabbits, whereas George admits that he would like to own a little patch of land and live on it in freedom. Thus, although they all share the idea of the American dream, it manifest in different ways for different characters. Thus it would appear that although the dreams Steinbeck’s characters have in “Of Mice and Men” seem to have been futile in the story, they are essential in order to give meaning to their hard lives, to make sense of their difficult existence and to keep alive the idea that, one day, their luck could
cathouse . . .” his tone of voice and the choice of Steinbeck’s punctuation makes it clear he could see the emptiness of the freedom he claimed to be losing by being with Lennie. Being alone would make him another victim of the cyclical structure and reduce him to be an ordinary migrant worker. When he says ‘I want you to stay with me’ suggests leading and supporting Lennie gave meaning to George's life, along with some sense of power and control.
''So you forgot that awready did you''. This makes George look like a reminder for Lennie as Lennie wont be able to remember a lot of things by himself, also this foreshadows later events in the novel because after Lennie killed Curleys wife, George had to remind him about the place to run to. Lennie strokes Curleys wifes hair. This foreshadows later events in the novel because Lennie also strokes a pet mouse. ''I could pet it with my thumb while we walk along; said Lennie''.
Explore some of the ways in which Steinbeck presents disadvantaged characters on ‘Of Mice and men’. During the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ Steinbeck presents disadvantaged characters I many different ways. Although at the start it only seems as though ‘Lennie’ is disadvantaged, as the novel progresses we see how each character has their own disadvantage to cope with, whether it be loneliness or learning difficulties they all have problems to deal with and overcome. In the novel there are many disadvantaged characters Lennie, George, Curley, Curley’s wife, Candy and Crooks. All of these characters are disadvantaged but their disadvantages affect them in different ways.