This essay will be answering the question “Is Lennie capable of building mature relationships with other characters in the Book Of Mice and Men by George Steinbeck?” The book Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck is set during the Great Depression in the United States. The main characters are George and Lennie who are complete opposites. Of Mice and Men has two main characters George and Lennie who are completely opposite in all ways. Of Mice and Men talks about many different themes including Depression, Loneliness and Racism. As the novel progresses, It shows that Lennie is unable to grow mature relationships with others and doesn’t understand why.
Lennie is unable to build mature relationships due to many different reasons including his level of maturity. More reasons will be shown later in the novel. In the
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“He Drank with Long Gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.” This here is the first comparison to a horse.
“Dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.” Here is is compared to a bear.
In the next piece of evidence, Of Mice and Men clearly shows that Lennie also behaves like a little child “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes; rings widened across the pool pool to the other side and came back again. Lennie watched them go ‘Look, George, Look what I done.’”
In all these pieces of evidence, Lennie is shown to be quite immature, compared to animals and how he acts like a child. In Of Mice and Men, It seems that Lennie always has a parent in every single Relationship, He has a parent in his relationship with George, Candy and Slim.
In this piece of evidence, Candy is helping George to protect Lennie while George deposits the money in the bank in town. “Candy broke in. ‘You let this guy alone. Don’t you do no messing around with him. I’m gonna tell George what you says. George won’t have you messing with
Steinbeck uses a theme to develop the story in an awesome way. He puts lots of themes in his book to make people think. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck theme is used. Theme is what develops the story. The main theme of this story is everyone needs a friend to enjoy life and live life.
During most of the story we can tell that Lennie focuses on things like his dream of tending the rabbits; and he is always trying to make George happy, for example by letting him have all of the imaginary ketchup so George could eat his beans with it. It’s safe to say that George can find Lennie a bit annoying at times. What will help us understand why Lennie and George are such good friends it this quote: “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you.” What this means is that Lennie need someone to look after him, and George need someone to care
In a way, George was like a parent or a big brother to Lennie. He scolded Lennie and yelled at him, but, all in all, George was just looking out for him. Readers see how George is like a guardian to Lennie in the first chapter when George says, “Lennie!... For god’ sakes don’t drink so much... Lennie.
The vocabulary used by Lennie is not the best. The characteristics of Lennie shows that he is not the brightest person. He was drinking lake water that was not clean. He ened up putting his hat in all and took a big gulp from the water. There is are mistakes made by Lennie throughout the book.
Change Critical Decsions are made all the time wether your at school or out of school. But in this story a decison will change everything for the worse or good. The book Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck. Is about two men, Lennie and George. They are migrant workers in California.
Lennie is very tall and very strong. This sometimes scares people away. He also has to be dependant on George to survive. He always has to follow George’s instructions. One example is when George tells Lennie, “I’ll give him the work tickets.
George is mostly shown as a father figure to Lennie, he takes care of him. But George does not really act nicely to Lennie a lot, it is like he is a real father. George gets angry like a real father is, when his child did something wrong. But George took this power and used it the wrong way in the early life with Lennie. He used his power which he had over Lennie to make him do anything George said and did horribly things to Lennie.
Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is an intriguing and captivating piece that captures America’s history. Throughout the text, Steinbeck demonstrates how multiple prejudices can affect contrasting characters in the 1930’s. Lennie Small and George Milton, a pair of bindlestiffs, witness the discrimination throughout the course of the novel. George cares for Lennie, who is mentally challenged, and once Lennie’s onerous actions increase, George makes the formidable decision to abruptly end his life. The characters in the story are faced with internal and external conflicts.
Although physically powerful, Lennie is not aware of his own strength, which causes him to harm others. This is seen in his crushing of Curley's hand during their fight, and eventually, in his killing of Curley's wife. Lennie's lack of understanding of social norms and his childlike nature also led to him unintentionally killing the puppies he was tending, even though he loved them so dearly. Despite his good intentions, Lennie's actions keep resulting in harm and
This relates back to naturalism, because Lennie gets himself into a situation that he cannot control. He does not understand that he has to be very careful with the puppy because it is so small, and he does not know his own strength. “What is clear is that Lennie’s body wins out over his mind repeatedly,- in the end with tragic consequences”(Keener 1215). Lennie is very kind- hearted, and never wants to hurt anyone. This quote explains that Lennie’s strength wins over his intentions.
The book of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck tells the story of an unusual couple travelling together as laborers working hand to mouth. Lennie being the “child” of the two, relies on George through the whole journey. They defy the odds of workers being in isolation. George and Lennie must work through obstacles of friendship, obligation and isolation in their journey to obtain their dream plan of owning their own land. Steinbeck suggests that though many workers believe relationships to be unnatural, the workers in fact have a desire to have a companion.
Lennie understands that since he has done something bad, George won’t want to let Lennie tend the rabbits they plan to have. Because Lennie was only focusing on his puppy at the time, it took Lennie a while to realize that he had done something that would upset George. He now thinks that George will not let him tend to the rabbits, which shows that Lennie’s desire has now become an
In the short novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck presents a variety of characters all with their own unique personalities. The author carves the characters into their own individual person. One of the main characters, Lennie Small, is a pure example of this. Lennie is a static character, which means that he does not undergo any significant changes throughout the novella. However, he is extremely impactful to the story.
In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie is an outcast. As a kid something happened to Lennie that made him the way he is. George told the boss “‘... He got kicked in the head by a horse when he was a kid’” (Steinbeck, 22)