Blog Post #3

Friday Focus: Focus on Character 

In this Post I will describe the most important characters from the Book “Of Mice and Men”.

The greatest relationship in this novel is the friendship of George and Lennie. They have traveled together for several years and George has been taking care of Lennie for the entire time.

George is very short tempered, but he can be very loving and caring like for example with his companion Lennie. Even though George frequently complains about the life with Lennie, the commitment to protecting and caring for Lennie never weakens. Lennie and George share the dream of their own farm, where they have freedom and where Lennie can take care of the rabbits.

In my eyes, Lennie is great, he is very innocent and I tend to feel very sorry for him. For example, when he pulled out the mouse that he petted to death and George already knew what happened but Lennie still didn’t want to hand it over because he was ashamed. Or when He gets beat up by Curley and just stands there and takes the beating since George told him to not make any trouble. Lennie is just pure goodness, and the way he is so enthusiastic about the farm that He and George want to build is adorable.

Then there is a character called Candy, he is the handyman on the farm and he is very old and has only one hand, since he lost the other hand in an accident. Because of his age, Candy is very worried about losing the job at the farm, he thinks he is worthless now. It did not help his fear that another worker called Carson insists to let him kill Candys dog because he is old and smelly. This just reminds Candy of his own fate when he is useless.

These characters are the most important and the ones that have made the most impact on me while reading. These 3 characters also have the dream of the farm in common. Candy offered George and Lennie that he could spend his savings on this farm if they let him live there with them. Now George and Lennie only want to work for another couple of weeks until they can afford the farm.

Candy, George, Lennie