George Milton - created from Mind Map

Smart

Itinerant Worker

Small man

American DreamHave 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

Needs Lennie as a friend Generally proud of him To avoid being lonely To get jobs

Foreshadows trouble Plans to hide in brush Fight w/ Curley Curley's Wife is danger

"...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. For example, he 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.

"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."these ranch loners 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.

George Milton