The novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is about two migrant workers who travel together one is a smart, young man named George and the other is a huge, childish man named Lennie. Aside from both being migrant workers, they have the same goal of getting their own land and living off their land. As the story goes on Lennie puts the dream in jeopardy due to an encounter with a flirtatious women. Although the dream gets put into danger the characters each represent a different side of humanity. Lennie presents the theme of “characteristics of a man is represented with a realistic part and animalistic part” by being the animalistic part. He is quite dumb and very oblivious to reality. He contrasts this with George being the realistic one. Lennie is very animalistic, a gentle giant, one could say. He has good intentions, but nothing ever work out for him. Lennie is extremely sweet, but he lives an unfortunate, handicapped life. He is mentally disabled and George is constantly having to watch over him like a child and make sure he doesn’t get into any trouble. George says to Lennie, "So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell …show more content…
“ ‘Well, we ain't got any," George exploded. "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble” (Steinbeck 1.89). George showed his ‘humane’ side as he expressed his emotion, thus this shows the ‘anger’ side of human. "Lennie—if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the brush… Hide in the brush till I come for you." (1.130) George shows his intelligent side of man by thinking ahead of time - since he predicted that Lennie would get into some kind of