Of Mice And Men George And Lennie Friendship

In John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” he tells the story of two friends, George and Lennie. John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” examines the importance of friendship.. The friends George and Lennie each have their problems, with Lennie being mentally disabled. Lennie is shown to be mentally slow and relies on George to guide and take care of him. On the other hand, George is witty and clever and acts as a father figure to Lennie, taking care of him, getting him out of trouble, and guiding him.

The first example of companionship is in chapter one when Lennie wanted to eat ketchup with his beans, and when he told George about it, He was told off. In response, Lennie tells George that “George, you want I should go away and leave you alone” (Steinbeck,

The story is about how people that are alone get locked up or thrown away, and no one cares, but things are different with them because they have each other. For example, George says, “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ our jack just because we got no place else to go. If the other guys get in jail, they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.” (Steinbeck, 12). This relates to the theme of companionship because they talk about how they have each other to talk to, how they can talk to someone who cares about them and refer to themself in that, and how they’re different and they are lucky because they have each

While everyone was looking for him to kill him, George manages to find Lennie before and knows that Lennie has to die, anyway. George decides to end Lennie's suffering for the better of him. George finds Lennie alone hiding and while Lennie is talking to him, George “raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without quivering.”(Steinbeck, 103). This last example shows the theme of companionship because they have such a deep friendship that George takes the hard decision of killing Lennie before Curley and other people can kill him, freeing Lennie of his suffering, and freeing George from his responsibilities, This shows how much George cared for Lennie, even though he would be mad at him and yell at him, he still loved