How Is George Compassionate Towards Lennie

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In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie have an unusual friendship. George shows that he really loves Lennie, and cares for his safety after his fight with Curley, shows love and hope for Lennie when he tells him to run and hide, after he kills curley’s wife, and shows that he is sympathetic for Lennie when Lennie kills the mouse. George also makes sure he gets a job, urges him to protect himself, and, finally, saves him from a terrible fate. Despite George’s final, violent act, he is a good caretaker for Lennie.

George's final treatment of Lennie in this chapter proves Lennie wrong because George was planing all along that he was just gonna end his life right at the moment he once saw him again. What George did was not mean because he was thinking about what his future was gonna be like. George knows what he is doing and he knows the right thing to do, even though Lennie wanted to go on with his life and run away from his problems. He had done a really bad thing, he had killed Curley's wife. Killing the puppy wasn't really a big deal because he was just a pup.

George probably thought that he was doing the right thing by shooting Lennie. George saves Lennie from the harshness and the cruelness that Curley and the other guys would have inevitably shown him. They would have shown him no mercy and it would have been a long and painful death for Lennie. Curley said “I’ll kill that big son-of-a-bitch myself. I’ll shoot him right in the guts” (Steinbeck 96). They way George did it was fast and unexpected for Lennie so he did not die with pain. Also, Lennie got to talk about his favorite thing with his best friend before he died as oppose to having to hear and talk to Curley. In the big picture George did the right thing for Lennie by shooting

George has always watched Lennie and took care of him. It was promise George made to Lennie’s Aunt Clara. But after a lot of traveling due to Lennie’s behavior, George was getting tired. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George, a migrant farm worker, kills his best friends Lennie, a child-like man who most likely has a mental disability [I don’t like Lennie’s description]. It might seem preposterous to kill your own best friends, like George did, but he did the right thing.

In the end George regretted and also did not regret his choice of killing Lennie because he would have got killed if he did not shoot him, but George also did not want anyone else to shoot his best friend. The three main reasons the decision was well made was because Lennie was violent, killing Lennie would save him from a long and painful death, and everyone would live a better life without him. From the start of the book to the finish, Lennie was violent. At first and throughout the novel he kept killing the mice. Lennie stated in the book after he killed some mice, “you ain't so little mice.”

In the book, Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck, George and Lennie have a very strong friendship, but each of them do experience difficult times, but they are both there for each other in spite of it. They have positives and negatives in their friendship. Steinbeck shows how important it is to have at least one good friendship and to stick with it. John portrays George and Lennie to have one of the greatest friendships although, it seems as if George swears that he doesn't really need Lennie by his side, he really does need him though because that's what keeps him going.

In the book Of Mice and Men, George’s identity is shaped much by his companion, Lennie, and the other characters in the book. He is very rational and keen as John Steinbeck describes him as “small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features” ( Steinbeck, 2). As the story develops, Steinbeck unfolds, how some characters influence George’s personality, his actions, decisions, and give him the strength to carry on. Due to his friendship with Lennie, George becomes a man with a strong sense of responsibility.

In John Steinbeck's novel, “Of Mice and Men,” we meet two best friends that travel together. Both total opposites, George is the smaller, yet smarter one and Lennie is bigger, but mentally challenged. Lennie gets both of them into bad situations, that led Lennie to his death. In my opinion, Lennie worshipped everything George said and George felt bad for him. Their relationship cost george to lose the dream him and Lennie both made together, also, Lennie didn't have as much freedom because he was always getting in trouble and that cost George to waste his time solely on Lennie.

However, despite this, George stays loyal to Lennie and ultimately even makes the sacrifice to send Lennie to a better place as we read in the text Of Mice and Men “The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.” Not out of frustration or malice did he pull the trigger but out of love for Lennie. Throughout the story, George remains dedicated to protecting Lennie and ensuring his well-being, embodying true friendship (Steinbeck 53). George's unwavering commitment to Lennie is very clear, as he consistently prioritizes Lennie’s needs above his own.

Despite George’s occasional anger at Lennie’s lack of intelligence, he feels compassion for his friend. For example, at the end of the story when Lennie accidentally kills another worker's wife, George is forced to kill Lennie with a gun so that Lennie avoids harsher and more brutal punishments. After doing so, George is overrun with sadness and at the loss of his companion. In addition, because Lennie is mentally weak, George often has to take care of Lennie. In fact, George feels obligated to help Lennie.

In the novella, “Of Mice and Men”, by John Steinbeck, two friends named George and Lennie, are migrant workers looking for work during the Great Depression. George’s friendship with Lennie is something that most people don’t see. George has always been a loyal friend to Lennie since they were kids, and Lennie is not a person who is able to provide much given his mental conditions. Lennie is very dependent even though he is an adult, he possess a child’s mind and can’t think for himself. He and George have quite the background together and their friendship proves that George is a good friend to Lennie. George is constantly sacrificing his time and life to make sure Lennie is safe and healthy. He lies to people, including the boss of his ranch to make sure he has a reputation around the ranch, since he can cause a lot of trouble by himself.

As much as George gets sick of Lennie and his childlike behavior and complains about how he could “have it so easy if he was alone”, he always goes back to thinking, if I did not have you with me “‘I [would] go nuts. I’d never get no peace...I want you to stay with me” (Steinbeck 11). In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men George is small, intelligent, and quick on his feet. On the other hand, George’s companion Lennie is a nice, absent-minded, but very large and strong, man with the best intentions at heart, but he is mentally disabled and has the mind of a child. His inability to understand the severity of his actions gets him into very bad situations, which is what forces George and Lennie, who travel around together trying to make money and sustain off of what they have, to lose their last job, just like

In the novel Of Mice of Men, George Milton was forced to care for a man with the brain of a child. The man’s name was Lennie Small. George acted like a father rather than a friend to Lennie. George was never able to embrace Lennie’s good qualities. Instead, George focused on his bad ones and looked at Lennie as someone who was useless to him. Lennie was much more than that, but George could not see past it. George showed no compassion toward Lennie and hardly cared about how he felt. Thus, George was not a good friend to Lennie because he did some things behind his back, yelled at him constantly, and bossed him around.

George even uses Lennie’s need as leverage to keep him under control. Lennie strives to hold responsibility. Unfortunately, Lennie tends to hurt the animals that he does receive. He is too strong for the animals that she cares for. During their journey from Weed, Lennie tends to a mouse, only to end up killing the fragile creature. Later on, George gets Lennie a puppy that Lennie regretfully kills with his power. Lennie’s good intentions fell short in comparison to his power. Lennie was looking for responsibility in pets but took on too much when the animals would be killed by his overwhelming strength.