Character Analysis Of George In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

George is first described as ‘small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features’. He was small with ‘strong hands, slender arms [and] a thin and bony nose’. George Milton is seen to be short-tempered, tense and impatient but throughout section one; one also learns that George is a loving and devoted friend who would never abandon his friend even in the most desperate of times. Despite George’s hardened, sometimes gruff exterior, he still deeply believes in the story of their future which he tells and retells to Lennie throughout the book. He craves for the day when he can be a free man, ‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’’.
Lennie Small on the other hand is at the outset described as ‘a huge man, shapeless of face,