How does Steinbeck present Lennie in the first chapter of of Mice and Men? Lennie is one of the first characters to appear in this novel, and as the book progresses you will see just how much of an important character he is. Lennie’s character is unique and so innocent. Steinbeck describes Lennie in animal forms, just to give the reader more of an idea what his character is like. On the second page Steinbeck describes Lennie by saying “…he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws” this implies that Lennie is quite a big strong man, and bears have the potential to kill; so does Lennie, but he doesn’t know that.
This is shown during an argument over a dead mouse as it says ‘”Give it here!” said George. “Aw, leave me have it, George.” “Give it here!” This shows that when Lennie doesn’t respond to George he has to treat him as if he was a dog by repeating commands over again until eventually Lennie gives in. As Lennie says “Aw…” it shows that Lennie really wants the mouse and doesn’t want George to take away his possession relating back to the idea that Lennie is presented as an animal as he is very persistent at getting what he wants. This shows the reader how Lennie gets his way as George treats him like an animal due to it being the only that he can obtain his attention and get him to follow what he is doing. As the story progresses George is shown treating Lennie like a child as if he was a parent.
The boss thinks George must be "takin' his pay" (Lennie's) because he "never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy". The very first section of Of Mice and Men is devoted to Lennie and George, in which both their characters are created. They are almost opposites, with George's "sharp, defined" features and Lennie's "shapeless face". The relationship between the two is created from the moment we see Lennie, as he rushes for the water, lapping it up "like a horse". He has no understanding over the situation, and drinks just because he's thirsty.
During the 1930’s, racism was quite common in the American Society. While the other men on the Ranch are mentally separated from each other with no body aside from George and Lennie being particularly close, Crooks is physically separated from the others. Crooks is initially mentioned when Candy is reflecting with ‘relish’ upon an event that happened on the previous Christmas. We learnt that after getting drunk, the
The character of Bear is one of the most important characters in the book “Crispin: The Cross of Lead” Written by Avi. He starts off as cruel to Crispin, but then begins to become kinder, until he ultimately become a surrogate father to him. At the beginning of the book, Bear was scary and would go into a rage often. Crispin was giving his opinion on something, and Bear’s face “clouded with anger.”(p.76) so he yells at Crispin. Bear and Crispin are talking about how the Kingdom is ruled, and Crispin comments that Bear’s view on the topic is considered treason, which infuriates Bear.
We could also infer from this that Lord Illingworth is trying to shape or teach his son to become a version of himself, he behaves very vicariously. Throughout the play Wilde uses Lord Illingworth as a tool to provoke carious reactions from the audience. The first of these can be said to be admiration of his unsurpassable wit and popularity. However these tones of appreciation soon begin to sour and turn to notions of repulse. I feel Wilde did this to express how easily people can lose their highly regarded reputation; this is the social message throughout the play as Lord Illingworth becomes ‘a man of no importance’.
He assumes that we will immediately laugh and, instead, describes a rather pathetic image of the man as he ages, looking ridiculous with his ‘deflated face and shrunken scalp’. He seems to be suggesting that we ought to pity rather than mock him, although there is a more subtle sense that both these reactions are being fostered as a way of combating the children’s immediate sense of fear – the reaction that of course the punk wants us to have. The reference to ‘dyed brain’ suggests that the man’s choice of visual persona goes much deeper than the surface image. There is pathos in the fact that the image the punk has chosen to display to the world is indelible and therefore impossible to change. The final couplet possibly offers some redemption to the punk himself – as if his persona can be wiped away.
However, his egocentric, conceited attitude is largely due to the treatment he receives from his parents, and a result of puberty. Furthermore, “Maestro” is a bildungsroman. Through his retrospective narration about his younger self, we can see how Paul comes to regret many of his past actions. Thus, while Paul is arrogant and selfish at first, he recognises the error of his ways, and changes. Paul’s self-absorption and selfish demeanour is most apparent in his relationship with Keller.
He is an arrogant and a bully, his attitude showed the part that was not true. He knows about the affair between Daisy and Gatsby, this resulted in Tom degrading Gatsby. He used to love the fact to feel important doing and saying things about Gatsby. “Tom likes to call Gatsby “Mr. Nobody” (Bloom 25).
Lennie was very isolated also from the ranch workers because he wasn't normal and acted very childish, this mustn't of been nice for Lennie and that is how the ranch is unpleasent for him. Carlson made Candy's life on the ranch very hard because he depised Candy's smelly old dog, in the book Carlson kills the dog because it was old and it stank but he never cared about how Candy felt about the dog he just cared about himself. Carlson killed the dog eventhough he knew how much Candy loved it, when Carlson suggested killing the dog “Candy looked for help from face to face” but nobody helped him. The reason why Candy couldn't stop Carlson from killing his dog was because he was a very brittle old man and was mainly over powered by people stronger than him. This event was very unpleasent for Candy.