The Curiosity In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Capturing the curiosity being produced by the reader, George grasps most of the attention starting as soon as his name is mentioned for the first time in the novel. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, the author of the novel, vividly shows the development in George’s character. Both George’s compassion for the world and people around him and the way in which he controls himself change rapidly as he progresses over the three days in which the novel takes place. From dealing with Lennie’s disability to simply hold himself together on the ranch, George demonstrates how people can change and mature quickly. By tracing George’s journey throughout the novel, readers can better appreciate George as a character and Steinbeck’s overall message. George’s
As George moves from one setting to the next, such as escaping from Weed to the ranch, the way in which he manages himself and his anger changes significantly. Since George is a character who carries a lot of stress, from dealing with Lennie to trying to pursue his own dreams, emotions and feelings are strong as he works a great deal every day. Sometimes, like everybody, he loses control of himself, such as the time when he was entrancing Lennie and himself with an abundant amount of information about the ranch of their dreams. When he was describing this utopia, he stopped abruptly before finishing his thought. On page 14, George states more facts about the countryside idyll which the two men dream about. “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we’ll just say the hell with goin’ to work, and we’ll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an’ listen to the rain comin’ down on the roof-Nuts!” As George approaches the end of his description, he stops abruptly. If he continues putting himself in this utopia, he starts to drive himself crazy by thinking too much about how he hasn’t lived up to his dreams yet. George believes that he could go so much farther in life if he didn’t have Lennie following his every move; he stops thinking about what he could have to make sure that he doesn’t begin to flip out on Lennie,
At the beginning of the book, when George and Lennie were wandering on their own devices after running from Weed, George seemed as if he considered Lennie and looked after him as more of an equal than he did at the end of the book. As the story went on, the relationship between the two statuses of George and Lennie seemed to grow farther apart. That being said, George’s compassion towards Lennie seemed to transition from looking after him as a friend to looking after him as a care-taker. At the beginning of the novel, before Lennie and George have reached the ranch, George seems to be completely content with the fact that he only has Lennie. When the two men arrive at the ranch, there are many other people there, so they must move on from only focussing on each other, since they now have other men and one woman around them. When it was just Lennie and George, George seemed to have to consider Lennie as a friend, since was all that he had. As the men get more comfortable on the ranch, George gets closer to more people. This seems to cause a change from George thinking as Lennie as a friend, to looking after him when there are more advanced and mentally capable people around him. The way that George controls his anger or longs for something that is as basic as the American Dream, is evident by the way that he handled himself after