Of Mice And Men George Milton Character Analysis

In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the character George Milton suffers from a prolonged feeling of loneliness as his conflict develops. George is the caretaker of Lennie, a man who has an intellectual disability. George and Lennie travel from farm to farm as migrant workers, in order to raise money to achieve their dreams. George was left in charge of raising and caring for a man who has a child like mentality, and throughout the novel has to go through a long series of conflicts in order to keep both of them safe. George has a great amount of guilt for the times he treated Lennie badly in the beginning of their friendship. He shares that in one instance he told Lennie to jump into a lake because he wanted to make fun of him, obviously without knowing that he was going to drown, and when he got him out “he was so damn nice to [him] for pulling’ him out”(Steinbeck 62). Even though George did a horrible thing, Lennie still thanked him for saving his life. This made George feel a tremendous amount of guilt and never again did he make fun or use Lennie to get a good laugh. Instead now, they say that “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the

George had a decision to make, would he let the boys from the farm lynch Lennie for killing Curley’s wife or would he kill him himself. When Candy’s dog was killed he thought he “ought of shot that dog [himself]” and regretted not doing so, this is a mistake George does not wish to make. This is why he himself steals Carlson’s gun and as his “hand [shake] violently,” but when he heard the men getting closer he had no choice and “he pulled the trigger”(Steinbeck 111). In the last few sentences Slim invites George for a drink, now George became one of the men that he said Lennie and he would never