Responsibility In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Responsibility in Of Mice and Men In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two men, George and Lennie, are both challenged with responsibility. In the story, the two are traveling looking for work. Straight away it is obvious that Lennie has a mental disability that was not specified, and it is shown that George cares deeply for his friend. Throughout this story, responsibility is shown in many ways. Although it is clear George has a greater sense of ability than Lennie, it is seen that Lennie does feel responsible for his actions because of the way he reacts to events in his life. George is definitely one of the most responsible people in the book. For most of his life, he has been taking care of and watching his friend Lennie. The pair travelled around searching for work together. During their time together, George did his best to protect Lennie as his aunt had asked. The two traveled around, ever in search of jobs. Although it was because of Lennie that they could not keep jobs for more than short periods of time, George stuck by Lennie through everything. Even though George felt responsible for the wellbeing of Lennie, he, understandably, felt…show more content…
Although he knew what things were right and wrong to a point, Lennie had difficulty deciphering between the two in the moment. When something would go wrong, Lennie would get scared. Him being scared led to worse things happening. For example, when he was playing with curly’s wife’s hair, he grabbed it too hard. This caused her to try to pull away which made Lennie hold on tighter. That went back and forth until he ended up killing Curly’s wife. Lennie felt horrible for his actions. He didn’t know how to take responsibility so he did what George had told him to. Lennie ran to the woods and hid. Eventually George found him and shot him in the back of the head. Lennie was finally taking responsibility for his
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