What do we learn about the two charters George and Lennie in the opening section of ‘of mice and men’ by john Steinbeck?

The relationship between George and Lennie is quite strong from the start we learn that George is the leader by how he walks in front of Lennie at the beginning we also learn that George takes a lot of responsibility for Lennie we know that because George carries Lennie’s work card George gets annoyed with Lennie because he forgets things all the time ‘I could get along easy and nice’ this quote shows that George has got annoyed with Lennie and he thinks about what he could achieve with out his trouble causing he gets mad at Lennie and then he realises what Lennie feels like so he calms down. A main bit of George and Lennie’s relationship is about the rabbits and the dream of a house and garden etc. Lennie is always moaning for George to ‘tell how it’s going to be’ it is amassing because of the amount of times George tells about how its going to be he never gets to annoyed about it.

The characters of George and Lennie are quite strangely alike because Lennie is very large and but George is small and strong Lennie has child like qualities and animal qualities he is dependent on George to tell him what’s right and wrong and George is dependent on Lennie. Lennie is also unaware of his strength, which is the beginning of their troubles the next is the mouse, which will lead to tragedy George is a very cautious person, he is described as having restless eyes which is very true. George also gets very annoyed with Lennie and frustrated which you would expect but rally he should not, in the book George is not shown at his best all of the time which is a shame the main quality for George is he thinks ahead like with food and he thought ahead by saying ‘if you get in trouble you come hide here’ this quote shows that George is expecting some trouble form Lennie but he does not really want to admit it.

All in all I think we learn quite a bit about George and Lennie in the opening section of 'Of Mice And Men' the book give some quite good descriptions of both individuals and quite detailed in a few cases I think things to come will George getting the house on his own or with some other people I don’t think Lennie will ever get the rabbits because if he does what would Georges threat because be? The book gives some good hints on what to come it give a lot of examples to foreshadow upon e.g. red sun set, the pool and the carp under the water.