George And Lennie

Of Mice and Men is a story written by John Steinbeck. The book is about two migrant workers named George and Lennie. George has average abilities while Lennie has the mind of a child. John Steinbeck was successful when making Lennie sympathetic to the reader because he was able to show that Lennie was loyal and caring through dialogue and actions.
A character trait that Lennie demonstrated throughout the book was loyalty. Lennie was very loyal to George when he let George speak and answer for him when they were at work. On their first day of work, their Boss was asking Lennie many questions which George answered for Lennie. In the text, the Boss asked George, “Why don’t you let him answer?” (Page 22) Lennie let George answer for him because Lennie’s level of intelligence did not let him answer for himself correctly. Lennie also let George speak for him because George told him not to speak. Lennie followed the order because he trusted George. This example shows that Lennie was not smart enough to do things by himself and had to rely on George, which makes the reader feel

Lennie had always wanted to live on his own ranch and have many animals. When George was telling his made up story about their future, Lennie asked George to tell him “how [he gets] to tend the rabbits.” (Page 14) The quote shows that Lennie wanted to care for rabbits. Lennie tried to care for other living things, but he was unintentionally rough. This was seen when Lennie tried to play with a puppy, but he was too rough and ended up killing it. This example makes the reader sympathize with Lennie because he cared for animals, but ended up unintentionally harming them. His caring nature started relationships between Lennie and animals, but also ended them quickly because Lennie accidentally killed the animals. This hurt the relationships and Lennie personally because Lennie felt disappointed in himself for killing the puppy while it was very