Essay On George And Lennie's Relationship
Throughout the story the two main characters George and Lennie have an obvious very close relationship. They have not only been through alot together, but they stand by each others side no matter what. I first realized this whenever George was telling Lennie about how he (Lennie) ran from their old place because of the whole problem with a woman and Lennie not letting go of her dress, but George stood by his side, and ran away with him. In the first chapter, Lennie is described as “a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes.”(2)Totally different from his buddy George who was “small and quick… with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.”(2) As the reader, I assume that Lennie sounds like a pretty big man, who sounds like he has
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Not only throughout the first chapter, but throughout the entire story, George is the mature friend that acts more like a father toward Lennie in my opinion. From controlling him and telling him what to say when going to work for the first time, “You jus’ stand there and don't say nothing.” (15) to instinctively knowing most of Lennie’s actions, like catching mice, “petting” them, and leaving them dead in his pocket. Although Lennie is the bigger, stronger man, I see him as a son when it comes to the relationship he and George have. I first saw this clearly whenever Lennie looked back at George and sort of mocked his actions, just like I would picture a young doing towards his father, like looking up to him. Both of the men clearly have a had a long relationship and that it clearly describes not only their friendship and how close they are but it also describes them on their own as people and their own personalities by the way they act towards one another. Lennie is more like a son to me in the relationship since I see him as this innocent man who has childlike actions and thoughts that are kind of bizarre and weird, like for example, like when he’ll tell George the mice he likes catching are just too small to play with and thats its not his fault that the mice would die when he would “pet”
Not only throughout the first chapter, but throughout the entire story, George is the mature friend that acts more like a father toward Lennie in my opinion. From controlling him and telling him what to say when going to work for the first time, “You jus’ stand there and don't say nothing.” (15) to instinctively knowing most of Lennie’s actions, like catching mice, “petting” them, and leaving them dead in his pocket. Although Lennie is the bigger, stronger man, I see him as a son when it comes to the relationship he and George have. I first saw this clearly whenever Lennie looked back at George and sort of mocked his actions, just like I would picture a young doing towards his father, like looking up to him. Both of the men clearly have a had a long relationship and that it clearly describes not only their friendship and how close they are but it also describes them on their own as people and their own personalities by the way they act towards one another. Lennie is more like a son to me in the relationship since I see him as this innocent man who has childlike actions and thoughts that are kind of bizarre and weird, like for example, like when he’ll tell George the mice he likes catching are just too small to play with and thats its not his fault that the mice would die when he would “pet”