You can tell that George and Lennie are close because George is always helping Lennie and telling him what to do, this is for his own good. So the role George plays is very important, he plays the role of a big brother because he will help him to get through life but will also insult him and tease him like brothers do.
George is playing the person in charge, he tells him when there is trouble and what to do if he runs into it, for example he tells Lennie to stay out of the way of Curley’s wife, she is big trouble. This is because she flirts and if Curley finds out about this he will beat up the guys involved for chatting to her.
Now Lennie would not have sensed this himself that’s why he needs George to tell him what to do and what not to do. In the same sense he wants to make Lennie happy, George does this well by telling him he can have a puppy. George says this to keep Lennie happy because this is what Lennie wants, so he knows by saying things like this Lennie will stay happy. George does not like to see Lennie upset or sad, if he says something bad he will try to rectify the situation “ I was jus’ fooling Lennie.” This means that what’s ever George has said it upset Lennie, and George felt sorry for hurting him so he tried to rectify the situation. From their dream of getting their own ranch they both keep talking about their dream, and George is always happy to tell Lennie about it to make him happy again. George cares about lennie he does not want people to think badly of him, so he helps him out in every situation, just to make him happy and make him look different to what he is really like. He proves this when he gets him out of the trouble Lennie caused in Weed, because they were on the run he wanted to help him so they went somewhere else to protect Lennie. I think this shows how much George plays the big brother role and looks after him, just to make him happy and to protect him from getting himself into more trouble.
In return Lennie trusts George with his life, he lets George make all the decisions about what they are to do, because he trust George so much. Lennie knows that if George tells him something and he forgets it George will be upset with him because he cant remember. So lennie tries his hardest to remember anything George tells him “ Coz I got you to look after me, someone that gives a dam about us.” This is saying that Lennie is happy that George is helping him. So if ever George tells him something, Lennie will do it without question.
Now George and lennie’s dream is one that has been thought through again and again, they talked about how they want rabbits for Lennie to look after and a little house with horses and flowers. This is what Lennies wants on the ranch he so often dreams about. George always tells Lennie that their dream is possible and they will do it. George is not really fussed about having the animals, but he knows buy having them it will make Lennie happy, so he goes along with the idea. George also wants a house with flowers and thing to keep him occupied, he is always explaining this to lennie to keep him happy. When Crooks heard George and Lennie talking to each other in great detail about their dream (they both forgot that Crooks was there) and he heard it all. Crooks was very interested in their dream and wanted to have a steak in it, he then went on saying he knew somewhere where we could have all this. So that’s why Crooks had an interest in their dream. At the end George finds all the fact of that when Lennie killed Curley's wife, and the fact the he has to look after him and always make him happy. He cared about Lennie so much he decided to put him out of his misery, he would have hated to see him inside a metal house, so George shot him in the back of the head when he was at his happiest. His reason for this was to cause him no pain and it would be quick and instant.
