Understanding George and Lenie

The loneliness of George and Lennie

In the Story of Of Mice and Men, we are introduced to the main characters at the beginning of the story. In the beginning, they are alone, and sitting on a log, next to a river. In this scene we get to know them, and why they are in this location, and what brought them here. The first words ever to come out of George`s mouth are the ones that scold Lennie because he was doing something not so smart like drinking the water. This first impression tells me that George is unhappy with the actions of Lennie, and this is one reason for there isolation from other people. George doesn't trust Lennie and does not trust him to make his own decisions. In the first part of the story, we take a look at why they move around so much, and why they have to move. The part when George explains when why they ran away from the cops, because Lennie garbbed the woman`s dress, gives us an idea why they keep moving around. A reason for this is because Lennie does something stupid. This may be a reason to why they have little or no connections to people, because of the traveling. We also get a sense of this when George tells the story of the rabbits; ``Guys like us, that work on the ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family, they don't belong no place``...``because you got me to look after you, and I have you to look after me``. Lennie always needs George to look after him, and he is not always found to be happy in the book. this may be the reason why George ends the life of Lennie in the end of the book. Because of the mental state of Lennie, George could not go on in life taking care of Lennie, because he would always lose the jobs George got for them. Because George spends all his time taking care of Lennie, he never gets to stay in one place and hold a job and be rich like3 he explains. He doesn't get a future. These are some reasons why George and Lennie are lonely and isolated in the book Of Mice and Men