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