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George Milton
- Smart
- Itinerant Worker
- Small man
- American Dream
- Have own farmland
- Have own farmland
- Good friend to Lennie
- He looks after his affairs
- Carrie his working card
- Promised Lennie's
Aunt Clara to look
after him
- Tries to steer him
out of potential
trouble
- Carrie his working card
- He looks after his affairs
- Needs Lennie
as a friend
- Generally proud of him
- To avoid being lonely
- To get jobs
- Generally proud of him
- Foreshadows trouble
- Plans to hide in brush
- Fight w/ Curley
- Tells Lennie to stay away from them
- Tells Lennie to stay away from them
- Curley's Wife is danger
- Plans to hide in brush
- "...with us it ain't like that. We
got a future. We got somebody
to talk to that gives a damn
about us. We don't have to sit in
no bar room blowin' in our jack
'jus because we got no place
else to go. If them other guys
gets in jail they can rot for all
anybody gives a damn. But not
us."
- He is honest with people he
trusts. E.g tells Slim that he
used to play tricks on Lennie
when they were young, but
now feels guilty about it as
Lennie nearly drowned.
- "We travel together," said George coldly.
"Oh, so it's that way." George was tense
and motionless. "Yea, it's that way."
- By saying "Oh, so it's
that way," Curley is
essentially accusing
Lennie and George of
being gay. But George
doesn't take the bait. It
just shows how
pathetic Curley is that
he can't understand
the men's friendship.
- By saying "Oh, so it's
that way," Curley is
essentially accusing
Lennie and George of
being gay. But George
doesn't take the bait. It
just shows how
pathetic Curley is that
he can't understand
the men's friendship.
- "I seen the guys that go
around on the ranches
alone. That ain't no
good. They don't have
no fun. After a long time
they get mean. They get
wantin' to fight all the
time."
- the ranch workers have
been alone for so long that
they're desperate to make
any connection
- the ranch workers have
been alone for so long that
they're desperate to make
any connection
- "And it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us. If we don't like a guy we can
say, 'Get the hell out,' and by God he's got to do it. An' if a fren' come along,
why we'd have an extra bunk, an' we'd say, 'Why don't you spen' the night?'
An' by God he would."
- For Lennie and George, a key part of the dream
farm is the freedom to let their friends stay with them.
- For Lennie and George, a key part of the dream
farm is the freedom to let their friends stay with them.
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