Of Mice And Men Sympathy Analysis

Sympathy is everywhere. Whether it’s in movies or seeing someone go through something, you feel it. For example, in The Lion King when Simba’s dad dies, the audience feels sympathy. Even books with made-up characters makes the reader feel sympathy. In Of Mice and Men, a lot of characters have their own struggles, and some deserve more sympathy than others. Although Curley’s wife and George deserve the reader’s sympathy, Lennie is the most sympathetic character in the novel because he has a mental illness, gets shot, and some of the characters talk down to him because he’s not smart.
George deserves sympathy because he constantly looks out for someone who can’t look out for himself. He’s always telling Lennie that he’s dumb because he doesn’t know anything. George also talks about how life would be simpler if Lennie weren’t around. For example,
She is lonely and Curley doesn’t allow her to talk to anyone except him. Imagine being lonely without having anyone to talk to. For example, she tells Lennie, “I get lonely,” she said. “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not talking to anybody?” (87). Also, the men from the ranch always have something negative about her. For example, when George & Lennie first come to work, she goes and meets them. As soon as she leaves, George says, “Don’t you even take a look at that bitch. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be” (32). Curley’s Wife deserves sympathy because she had no reason to die. Lennie accidentally kills her in the story. In the book, it says, “..and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.” ( 91). Curley’s Wife is pitiful, but Lennie is most