How does Steinbeck present George and Lennie’s relationship in sections one and two of the novel? In the first two sections of the novel we see that the relationship between George and Lennie is very much like a relationship between a parent and a child. In the section one of the novel, Steinbeck shows us that Lennie is completely depended on George, much like a child is completely dependent on their parent. This is evident to us when the two men are talking about work cards and Lennie says, ‘George. I aint got mine.
TT [Lennie holds George back, but George cares so much for Lennie that he’s willing to overcome the challenges.] Lennie has issues, he can’t help it, but it’s real hard on George. When George gets really agitated from Lennie he doesn’t mean to yell, but he can’t help it. It hurts Lennie, he once told George that he “should go away and leave [George] alone,” that he “could go off in the hills” and “some place [he’d] find a cave” (12). T1 [George felt bad hearing his best friend say that, as much as that would get rid of George’s challenges, he cares too much for Lennie to lose him] George’s agitation might harm Lennie, but George has to ventilate his anger somehow.
Although Lennie is very large and intimidating, he wouldn’t hurt a fly unless by accident. In this story Lennie gets a lot of mice to pet. Each time he kills it, it’s always by accident because being unbright as he is, Lennie doesn’t know his own strength. George wouldn’t let Lennie kill something on purpose unless it put them in danger. They got each other’s backs just like
They both have similar naïve attitudes and innocent visions of the world. This essay will further explore the similarities between Lennie and the ward patients. Lennie from Of Mice and Men is a dependent person. He depends on George, his friend and traveling companion. George promises to never leave Lennie alone “You ain’t gonna leave me, are ya’ George?
Lennie needs George, but it is equally true that George needs Lennie as well. George was also a harsh, mean and derogatory to Lennie, however, it is also very evident that George never left Lennie despite his life would have mean much easier without him. Lennie is George's hardship, but George loves him regardless. Since the death of Lennie's Aunt Clara, George took it upon himself to take responsibility of him and his special needs by finding him jobs, feeding him, and making sure he is safe. Their mutual dependence on one another is what keeps George and Lennie together.
George knows that Lennie gets in trouble, but the fact that they have each other is worth the work. He tries to keep Lennie on track towards their dream. Even though Lennie makes George extremely irritated, he truly cares about him and hopes for a better future together, where they control their future not anyone else. George’s ultimate sacrifice is when he has to kill Lennie to save his friend from agenizing pain. George Truly cared about Lennie and wanted him to know it.
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.
George becomes very frustrated with Lennie sometimes and can lash out at him and get very angry with him. George knows that Lennie will not remember this in the morning so he uses this to his advantage and uses him like a stress reliever to release all his anger on him with doing no harm. Lennie is always in debt to George and so never retaliates. He sees him as a brother, Lennie is not an evil being but look that way due to his size, he does kill as the novel reveals but he sees no harm in this as he doesn't learn, he can’t learn. George must take all of the responsibility for Lennie, for his own good; Lennie is a burden to him but can’t throw him aside, time has made the link between them stronger and they will stand side by side until they reach their dream; The American Dream.
Men and women seek hope in his or her lives in order to make something of themselves useful, but they cannot find it because of the fact that they are too isolated by his or her surroundings. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates Lennie’s friend, George, as a person who has a bit of hope, but is worried that his “partner” is going to ruins his life once again like at the time they were at Weed. George is often characterized as a person who has to take care of Lennie because he knows that the only person that could ever make things go wrong is Lennie. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper” specifically represents George because it shows that even though he has little hope on his side, he has to take of one’s life, and that is Lennie Small. When George has hope on his side, he says, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.
Throughout ‘Of Mice And Men’ Steinbeck portrays George as a resentful father figure to Lennie; however this task proves to be a lot of work, as Lennie is rather an annoyance towards George due to his lack of intelligence and knowledge of the world. Consequently this means George has to focus upon keeping Lennie safe and protected and unfortunately his own ‘American Dream’ is temporarily abandoned. When starting at the ranch George is judged for travelling around with Lennie, his boss assumed he was using Lennie for labour purposes and taking his money; ‘Funny how you an’ him string along together.’ Similarly the workers also feel George is going to a lot of effort to keep someone who is ‘slow’, like Lennie, with him when it would be easier to travel alone. The adjective ‘funny’ suggests the situation is unusual and no one has ever bothered to do the same, nor have they ever seen anything like it before. However earlier in the novel George describes him and Lennie as the, ‘loneliest guys in the world’ implying that he doesn’t feel the same way.