Lennie is incapable of making decisions by himself and relies and depends on George entirely and also looks to him as sort of a big brother. Lennie also sees that George is helpful for guidance and answers which relates to Lennie’s mental abilities. Lennie feels a sense of safeness and comfort when he is with George, whereas when Lennie is without George he sometimes feels awkward and misunderstood by others. George refers to Lennie as his cousin in the book, only to avoid questions being asked and hassle from the ranch owner. But the truth to the matter is that George promised Lennie’s Aunt Clara that he would take care of him when she passed away.
Loneliness affects many of the characters, Steinbeck seems to show that it is natural and inevitable result of the kind of life they are forced to lead. John Steinbeck's novel, “Of Mice and Men”, is a story in which a dominating idea of inescapable loneliness prevails. "A guy needs somebody to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you.
George and Lennie want to own a farm together, but with how Lennie acts it might not happen. TT [George is doomed from his friendship with Lennie.] George and Lennie are really close friends. George and Lennie’s P1 [friendship] doesn’t have any issues that could break their friendship. TT [Lennie holds George back, but George cares so much for Lennie that he’s willing to overcome the challenges.]
The simple and humble dreams and ambitions of Lennie provide hope and motivation for a lot of key characters, including George, Candy and Crooks. Lennie is an intensely simple and innocent character who is entirely dependent and faithful to George due to his mental disability. Lennie’s dream is of simply owning a farm with George where he is able to ‘live off the fatta the lan’ and tend to the rabbits, which ideally would be large enough for Lennie to handle without hurting. Lennie’s dream is immensely simple, and does not seem all that impossible in retrospective, but with the harsh conditions of the times and the disability suffered by Lennie, the dream seems all the more difficult to achieve. George also shares this dream, but with a more well rounded and realistic
In the novel George says ‘Lennie never done it in meanness. All the time he done bad things, but he never done one of em mean”’. This shows How George feels sympathy for Lennie as he always manages to get other people upset at him and always manages to get himself into trouble but Steinbeck is showing the reader though George that he never means to cause trouble and he often held back and get in trouble due to his simplicity and child like mind. Steinbeck uses characters around Lennie to make the reader feel sorry for Lennie. In the novel apart from George, no one else really cares for Lennie.
No parent wants to see their children go out into the world exposed to its dangers, but parents also know that they can’t always be there to protect them. Although Atticus accepts this idea, he loves his children, Scout and Jem, with all his heart. Atticus believes that everyone is equal despite their outside appearance. “You never really know a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” he said. Most people judge only from what is on the exterior instead of trying to make sense of how different people see things differently under various circumstances.
The use of person pro noun ‘my’ in the opening phrase establishes the filial relationship. ‘He kept pace only with the Joneses Of his own minds making’ This line here tells us the he is driven by his personal goals and truly doesn’t care about the cliché images of social status ort stereotype but rather looks at his own mind. This shows us that he has inner strength as he is now living in a new land and people expect others to do what is normal or what people expect from them but in this case he stands alone and does what he feels is right. ‘Loved his garden like an only child’ this line shows us that he is a man of the soil devoted to his garden like a parent to their offspring. The use of a simile in this line yet again tells us that he is hard
But, even as the relationship of George and Lennie is beautiful and rare, it is also heartbreaking, for the contrast between the pair’s aspirations and the final result of their struggle sharply illustrates the tragedy of Naturalism. The extraordinary nature of the relationship between George and Lennie eludes conventionality in that not only does the pair keep each other alive, but their relationship blazes defiance towards the forces of Naturalism. Naturalistic thought depicts a cruel force dictating the actions of humans, and nowhere does this idea seem more apparent than in the lonely lives of the farmhands depicted in Of Mice and Men. The song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” exhibits this isolation: “I walk a lonely road / the only one that I have ever known / ... I walk alone.” As sung in this Green Day classic, the men on the farm have known only solitude and hardship due to their inability to escape Naturalism’s clutches.
He leads a life free of danger where he has no logical reason to be concerned for his life or that of his family. Nothing about his life would lead to the threat of his life or his families, but he lives with the raging fear that there is reason. Before letting us see how neurotic William is about the safety of his family due to 9/11, Alexie shows us the characters of William’s family and his home life at a glimpse. Marie, his wife and Grace, his young daughter are lovely. His wife is beautiful, sweet and sexy and his
Nick’s past, his Midwestern upbringing, brings perspective and value to Gatsby's history, but Gatsby does not change because his past is based on lies. The result is a tragic end for Gatsby and this leaves Nick only able to feel “a certain shame” (170). In the end, Gatsby failed because his request of Daisy was impossible. She could not go to Tom and say, “I never loved you,” because this, like so much of Gatsby's past, would be a lie. So to his incorruptible dream, Gatsby was faithful until the