Responsibility In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, two unlikely companions George and Lennie are struggling to live a stable life by constantly losing jobs and moving to different locations around California. George a responsible worker and a small stubborn figure who tries to keep everything in order between keeping a job and overstepping boundaries for Lennie. Lennie a masculine man with a kind hearted soul struggles with his child like behavior and doing the right thing. While George struggles to keep sane with caring for Lennie and keeping a job to support them both, but the difficulties Lennie brings causes lost hope to achieve their American dream. George continually takes responsibility over Lennie despite giving up many opportunities, but after continuously getting into serious complications causing an uproar costing themselves stable living, suggests that tragic

When George and Lennie reach the Salinas River, George exclaims Lennies ability to remember blaring about the responsibility making sure another incident doesn’t happen again, George expresses “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail.” (7) But according to George's definition of responsibility he can only succeed their dream by himself, however he cares for Lennie and would be irresponsible for leaving him,“ If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills and find a cave. I can go anytime.” (12) Despite George knowing he can leave Lennie he decides to sacrifice for him, George willingly went with Lennie back when “they run us out of Weed” (7) which emphasizes his experiences and past with responsibility to care for Lennie and willingness to push boundaries for his friend and himself to ensure quality lives for one