To what extent do you sympathise the character of George

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To what extent do you sympathize with the character of George?

In Of Mice and Men, there are several characters that are really sympathetic, but I sympathize with George most because first he is mentally healthy, second his friendship with Lennie makes him become Lennie's "father", and third he has to make the right decision to shoot Lennie. Here is the further elaboration.

Some may question me why mental health can become a reason for George's poor fate, because Lennie is sympathetic due to his mental handicap, how could not being mentally handicapped is a bad thing? Actually for George, it is.

"I think I know’d we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would". This suggests that actually George knows that their dream may not work out, because he understand the reality that their life is unfair and miserable, but he tries to assume that they can do her. Only George suffers this inner struggle, not believing in something but telling himself to believe in, never does Lennie.

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When Lennie says that Curley's wife is pretty, George tells him "You leave her be". Here George is warning Lennie to get away from that woman because he knows from Lennie's eye that Lennie is attracted by her beauty, as being attracted by other beautiful and soft things before. This shows that Lennie doesn't have a sense of judgement for his action, he have no idea what his action means, and what serious consequence such as losing jobs or getting caught they may cause, but George does. Every moment, George lives in clear consciousness of what life he is living, ...

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