Of Mice And Men Relationship Between George And Lennie Small Essay

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Does George need Lennie more or does Lennie need George more? Have you ever wondered how two people, who are completely different, can have such a good relationship? The perfect example of this can be found in John Steinbeck's classic novel 'Of Mice and Men'. These two characters are George Milton and Lennie Small, two itinerant workers. Lennie Small is a lanky,skinny man. He is also very strong . He is constantly getting in trouble because he likes to touch things. Like for example in the start of the book in Weed, Lennie saw a beautiful girl in a red dress, he thought the dress was pretty and wanted to touch it. When he grabbed a hold of the dress, the girl pulled away. Lennie's natural reaction was to keep doing it, so therefore resulted in him getting into bother. All of his relatives are gone,the person who looked after him before was his Auntie Clara. The reason he has to stay with someone all the time is because he disabled and couldn't survive on his own. As Slim says, "Jes like a kid." (Pg44)…show more content…
He is always telling off Lennie about doing something wrong or not doing like his mother. Sometimes it's helpful, other times it's not. George can be harsh and impatient sometimes, but he never stops protecting his friend, Lennie. Unlike Lennie, George does change later on in the story. Once he even took advantage of Lennie for his own entertainment. He was on the bank of a river with some of his friends telling them that Lennie would do whatever he told him to do. Well, he knew that Lennie could not swim, but he told him to jump into a river anyways. Lennie listened to him out of trust and almost drowned from it. What did George learn form this incident? He learned not to take advantage of the weak. this made George and Lennie's relationship run better. In the beginning of this book George is like and is regarded as better than what he is in
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