Lennie is viewed by s few characters in the novel and it affects their characterization. George is portrayed as a family member to Lennie. They travel everywhere together. Sometimes, George can be quite mean to Lennie, which makes him like a brother. He loves him even though he has a mental disbility ,but at other times George is very mean to Lennie.
This makes Ray resent the majority of his school associates but out of respect and because he is a well-mannered, nice boy Ray puts these feelings of resentment to one side and doesn't make an issue of them. The reader develops an opinion that Ray is a nice boy by looking at the opinions of the people who speak about him, Susie's mother, Abigail presents Ray Singh as a harmless individual in the short direct speech "that sweet boy?" This portrays that Ray Singh hasn't been anything but nice Susie and her family However when the police "descended on" Ray's house for the second time it is clear what their intentions were, the police were clearly looking for someone to
In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield is a thoughtful young man, who happens to also be very angry. As a result of his anger, Holden purposely isolates him from his surroundings, leaving a feeling of depression and arrogance. This arrogance can be seen throughout the book, when Holden generalizes certain people as “phony”, and labels himself as the only “real” person in this world. Later in the book, you learn that Holden’s younger brother Allie has died due to complications of leukemia, and it is inferred that Holden has not moved on, causing his anger.
We as readers can infer a firm moral message. The innocence on Lennie draws sympathy from my self and the reader as we understand Lennie has a mental condition, which must be difficult for a man of the 1930’s as we understand he always keeps George in ‘hot water’. Though George none the less sticks by Lennie, as they’re both reliant on each other, even though it would be easier for George to go ‘alone’, he would feel loneliness without Lennie. They both have a dream and this is what keeps them
George realizes that it is wrong to make a weaker living suffer. George admits that Lennie is “dumb as hell.” Using metaphors and similes the reader can better understand how much George loves Lennie. Slim then starts to realize where George is coming from and starts to appreciate their friendship. This characterizes George as caring, loving, and optimistic. George won’t let Lennie “go down alone” because he cares about his friend so much and knows he doesn’t deserve that.
Eventually, he regresses back to childhood and crawls to Stephen, asking him to “hold me” and to “call me by my name”. After this, Weir becomes dependant on alcohol, with clear symptoms of alcoholism; his shaking hands and the “inability to talk sensibly until the liquor had put some strength and reason inside him”. He is also a superstitious man, searching for constant reassurance from Stephen in the form of tarot card reading, finding hope and comfort from the outcomes. His lack of familiarity with women is one that reduces his masculinity, as it is expected of men to be confident and experienced with women by his age. When Stephen takes him to the prostitutes’ house, the old woman said that Weir started to cry, revealing his fear of intimacy with women, a trait unexpected of the typical
Phillip has a facial deformity, resulting in him being the target of Gram and Grant’s antics, and causes him to nickname them ‘Grum and Grunt’. In this chapter of the novel Phillip is shown to have a low-self esteem, and his relationships with other characters are mostly negative, with the sole exception being his brother, Michael. Michael- Michael is the more talented, intelligent and popular twin brother of Phillip. Michael is shown to be a kind indivual as well, trying his best to help his brother, even at the risk of his friendship with others. He lacks his brother’s facial deformity as well.
One day, Jack and his crew were hanging out, when they decide to siphon gasoline from the _________ car, they are a poor family with extremely antisocial children that live in poverty. Jack suggests this idea because he thought it would be fun, but in actuality it was a way of getting back at Dwight and acting out in order to find a way to stop feeling like Dwight’s victim, and instead prove a
One would think that Jack is a disturbed child with no redeeming qualities. However, his portrayal of himself and his illness comes across as almost touching. The reader can see his endless struggle with these issues in his own conscience, which creates a positive understanding of how his troubled past has influence his present
His PTSD helps explain why he has so much trouble interacting and making friends. An example would be his relationship with Mary Elizabeth, the first girl to really like him. At first Charlie doesn’t know how to react, his perspicacity with sexual abuse caused his mind to block out any emotions. Charlie is also the type of character that tends to care more about people around him than his own self. This effect of PTSD slowly causes the destruction of Charlie that we see in the end of the book.