Character Analysis: Of Mice And Men

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Plot: Bailey promised that no matter what they would always be together. With their exploer mother who left the girls with her mother and brother, for over sixteen years, Bailey promised that she would never leave Lennie like their mother did. At age nineteen Bailey suffered from fatal arrhythmia attack, leaving Lennie alone in the world. Only seventeen Lennie was alone in the world. Suffering next to her was Bailey’s soule mate Toby Shaw. Toby pain equals Lennie’s as they are both missing Bailey, making the closer than they have been before. It was only locked in Toby’s embrass where they could both forget about Bailey and enjoy the warm feeling provided by the other: “I kiss him back and don’t want to stop because in that moment I feel like TOby and I together have, somehow, in some way, reached across time, and pulled Bailey back “ …show more content…

Day in and day out, missing Bailey would just hit her unexpectly. She wanted to talk to Bailey about school, Gran, the boys entering her life. Looking at old pictures seeing Bailey’s smiling face, knowing she would never smile again: “She is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her” (51). The new kid and musician extraordinary was Joe Fontaine. Joe who was so talented and handsome, he could of had any girl, but he chose Lennie. Calling her John Lennon (as her real name was Lennon), he came to her house every morning, becoming friends with Uncle Big and Gran, ultimately stealing Lennie’s heart. Lennie in good conscious could not spends her mornings with Joe, and then kiss Toby all night, no matter how much Toby could erase the thoughts of Bailey. Knowing what she is doing with Toby is wrong, she has to end it before Joe finds out. Throughout this novel Lennie speaks of fresh love, and heartbreak as she speaks the four true worlds of her heart: “I want my