Character analysis

Hi, guys!

In this post i will analyze the main character in the book. Enjoy!

Lennie Small is George´s companion. He is huge and strong, but a mental disability makes him entirely dependent on George. And he is painfully eager to make George happy. This mental disability makes sure that he forgets things. All most every time George explains something important, he forgets. The only thing he can remember is the big dream between him and George. Lennie is the most innocent, gentle, and kind character in the novel, and his sole dream is to tend rabbits and live on a farm that he and George will own.

In fact it seems like Lennie shouldn´t have many friends at all, even Geroge thinks he´s a little annoying. Lennie doesn’t understand that Lennie provides a need. He needs to be looked after, and George needs someone to care for. I think it is therefore they two were friends, because they both needed each other.  

Lennie is always talking happily because he never understands when a situation is serious. For example after he had killing Curley´s wife and meets George. He was really glad to see George, and forgets all he has done. It means that George must be able to handle it. This time he handled it by killing him.

Lennie also likes soft things. He just can´t keep his hands to himself. All he wants is to pet rabbits, mice, puppies, and women’s dress. All these things he pets, end up dead or accusing him of rape because of his strength. Lennie would never hurt anyone, but he can no fault it.

George Millton is Lennie´s friend and protector. Unlike the giant and strong Lennie, George is small with a quick and resourceful mind. It was always George who came up with good solutions to problems. George is a typical migrant farm worker, a class of poor and lonely men who traveled from ranch to ranch looking for work during the Great Depression. But George is differs from these other men because of his friendship with Lennie.

George is such of caring person. He refers this to Lennie. George shows that he take care of Lennie, even when he´s saying “The hell with the rabbits. That’s all you can ever remember is them rabibits.” He may get tired of the rabbits but he still tells Lennie´s favorite bedtime story about their dream farm, and he still looks after Lennie as much as he can. George knows that the farm is just a silly dream, but with Lennie, George can believe. Lennie makes George can hope and look toward the future.

George and Lennie have each other until they don´t. After Lennie dies, George tells Slim "I'll work my month an' I'll take my fifty bucks an' I'll stay all night in some lousy cat house. Or I'll set in some poolroom till everybody goes home. An' then I'll come back an' work another month an' I'll have fifty bucks more" (5.79-80).

Now George is just like everybody else. He is homeless man traveling from farm to farm in search of menial contingent work. He has nothing to live for. Lennie may have been big dumb, and annoying, but he also made George special. 

-Frida