Steinbeck differentiates George and Lennie from each other on their mental and physical appearance and strength, George a small man and his opposite Lennie a huge man. In their physical appearance George was visualized with defined body parts and with strong features while Lennie with a shapelss face. In terms of mental ability, Steinbeck said that Lennie has a mild mental disorder that made him the weakest character in the novel. While George, compared to Lennie, he is the boss, he decides on everything they will do and Lennie depends on what he say.
George and Lennie traveled together, since Lennie’s Aunt Clara died. They are both migratory workers seeking employment during the Great Depression. And like so many they have no home, together they encourage each one another with their dream of owning a homestead. They have adream of having a piece of land and a small house, where they will have there poultries, some cows, vegetables and remarkably the rabbits. They will have rabbits with different colors which George always wanted to pet. They were together dreaming of living the life they wanted, wherein they will not work for other people but for themselves. They will live off fatta land. George also made himself to believe in their dream that in can be fulfilled because of Lennie’s idealistic faith. They cling to each other as they believed on the fulfillment of their dream.
As George and Lennie live their life together, another thing we knew about them is that George acts as a commander and Lennie his follower. On the whole novel, it constantly showed how Lennie is very loyal to George. He follows everything what George told him. Some of the part that shows Lennie’s loyalty is when he resist to fight back to Curley then he crushed Curley’s hand as Gorge told him to fight back. Another one is when the time Lennie met Curley’s wife at the barn, he acted and insist not to talk to her because she’ll get him into trouble as what George said to him. But then he failed to keep away from her because of his childlike idealism. They are very loyal to each other. Not just Lennie but also George. George showed his loyalty to Lennie on the part where he is pissed and then telling Lennie that he got him rather than having his own life alone. And without Lennie, George would be alone and unhappy, he realizes: “course Lennie’s a nuisance most of the time, but you get used to going around with a guy and you can’t get rid of him.”
Lennie and George love one another; they know what their lives have meaning because they are friends. They differ among any others because they have each other in life. They had a dream and hope that it will come true. When Lennie accidentally breaks the neck of Curley’s wife, George kills Lennie in act of mercy and love, and saving him from dying by the hands of a stranger.