Lennie is also dependant on George everywhere George goes lennie has to follow. Lennie relies on George to get him a job and look after him. Lennie is severely retarded he has got poor speech and he is also illiterate. Lennie is an itinerant worker he goes around with George from ranch to ranch. He also has low intelligence, he can’t seem to remember anything he doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong. Lennie works with horses at the ranch and also loves petting animals. In both stories women lead to their downfall in Lennie’s case it is Curleys wife.
Isaac also has got a poor memory this is shown by as he cannot remember the dream he had about Rebecca “ Your memory is but a poor one Isaac” this is what Mrs Scratchard, he couldn’t remember the dream. Isaac also has strength this is shown when he hits Rebecca, Isaac is relatively dependant on Mrs Scratchard, who is his mother. Like Lennie Isaac is also uneducated he can’t read or write. Isaac is also like lennie by him also being an itinerant worker, he works in the stables with horses and in private houses, Isaac is of low intelligence and he also works with animals. We can only assume that Isaac is big by him being able to hit Rebecca, but there are no direct references to Isaacs’s size.
Both characters have many similarities but they also have their differences. Whilst lennie is totally dependant on George, Isaac is only relatively dependant on Mrs scratchard. Lennie is unmarried and has never really had anyone to get to close to apart from George. Lennie is severely retarded and he can think of anything for himself he can only take orders. Lennie has no family only his aunt Clara, the only family lennie has got left is George. George has to find lennies job for him due to him being unable to find one for himself. Lennies abundant strength gives him problems; he doesn’t know when to stop, whereas Isaac only hits Rebecca once and regrets it fully once he has done it. Lennie finds it hard to control his emotions whilst Isaac doesn’t. Lennie has got friends whereas Isaac hasn’t got any friends the only friends he got are his mother and Rebecca.
In “ Of Mice and Men” lennie is a fully developed character compared to Isaac, this is why you don’t really know Isaac as well but with lennie you can relate to lennie and what he goes through. “ The ostler” is a short story so Isaacs’s character isn’t well developed.
Lennie and Isaac are both treated like outsiders by various people, I think that lennie is more accepted in society than Isaac due to people feeling sorry for lennie, they don’t believe he could cause any trouble and they believe he is just like a child. Lennie relies on people to tell him what’s wrong and what’s right. Leninie is just a child in a grown- ups body. Isaac I think is seen more as an outsider he doesn’t go out, he spends most of the time with his mother so he doesn’t really have time to go out and make friends. The only real friend he has got is his mother Mrs scratchard. Rebecca is just false and wants to kill Isaac just like in his dream.
In mice of men, towards the end of the story, lennie’s s little puppy dies because lennie was playing to rough with it “ why did you have to go and get killed, you aint so small as mice, I didn’t bounce you hard” Lennie doesn’t realise what he’s done he only thinks that now he’s done something bad George wont let him tend the rabbits. While lennie is sitting there crying, Curleys wife comes in she said, “ What you got their sunny boy” lennie denies he has got anything, but Curley’s wife discovers the puppy. Lennie wont talk to Curley’s wife, George has told him to keep away because all she will cause is trouble and she’s dangerous.
In the end lennie ends up talking to curleys wife and lennie starts saying that he likes stroking soft things and curleys wife lets him stroke her hair, but lennie starts to get rougher and wont stop and curleys wife starts to panic, “ Let Go”. “ You let go “ But when lennie ignores he curleys wife begins to scream and as she does this lennie gets angry so he started shaking her and then “ Her body flopped like a fish” lennie runs away and tries to find the place where George told him to hide if he was ever to get into trouble again. Curley and everyone find Curleys wife and go after lennie to kill him. George goes after him as well. George finds lennie first, lennie wants to hear about the rabbits, so George tells lennie to turn around and look at the fields and image what it would be like, as George tells the story lennie brings out a gun and shoots lennie in the head. George does this himself because he doesn’t want anyone else killing lennie, he would rather kill him himself, and also after someone else shooting candy’s dog, candy wishes he shoot him himself.
In the ostler Isaac doesn’t believe his mum, Mrs scratchard, about the dream. But after she died she warned Isaac not to go back. Isaac does go back through and after arguing with Rebecca he hits her Rebecca replies “ No man has ever struck me twice” and then she left saying they will see each other no more. But on the seventh night before his birthday she come back, to rein act the dream, but as Isaac new what would happen he knew where she hide the knife, he took the knife and left her there and went away. Now Isaac lives in fear of Rebecca, he sleeps most nights well, through the year, but every time around his birthday he is worried in case she comes back and tries to rein act the dream again.