George Milton, a farmworker, who is “small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.

..[with] small,strong hands, slender arms, and thin and bony nose” Milton is best friends,more like brothers, with Lennie Small, of whom will be mentioned later. George is a very hard working man, and is constantly focused on gaining money to make his life better, as well as help his friend Lennie.Lennie Small is anything but small. He’s a rather big man, especially in comparison to George.

Lennie treats George as somewhat of a mentor. The main ‘problem’ that Lennie has is that he takes on somewhat of a mental disability. Its hard for Lennie to remember things, fixates on different small unnecessary things, and is eager to make George happy.What is their friendship like? Would you really call it a friendship? George, throughout the book, constantly make Lennie feel like he’s a burden.

For instance George says this to his ‘friend’,” ...An’ whatta I got.

..I got you! You can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. Jus’ keep me shovin’ all over the country all the time.

” If George is portrayed as such a great person, how can he be so rude to Lennie?Now thats not to say that Lennie hasn’t done things to make George mad. Before they left Weeds, Lennie had gotten them kicked out of town because he looked and touched a woman’s skirt. Lennie honestly doesn’t know that the things he does are wrong, he just sees things that he likes and he has to have them.George is a simple man really, he has Lennie as his main companion. In order to keep Lennie calm and hopeful, George constantly promises that both of them are going to get a farm,”live offa the fatta the lan'.

” and Lennie will take care of the rabbits. Lennie becomes obsessed with the rabbits that they will 'have', and George sort of deals with Lennie's obsession with only a little bit of anger.However this changes when George and Lennie find work at the ranch, of which they were headed to at the beginning of the book. At the ranch George and Lennie meet Candy, an older man who does some chores around the ranch,and Curley,the bosses’ son who is very pugnacious and constantly looking for his wife. Now as soon as Curley’s new wife enters the picture, she flirts with George and finds Lennie intriguing. This leads to Curley getting defensive over his wife, of which he wears a vaseline filled glove for, and trying to punch Lennie, which ends with a broken hand due to Lennie’s large hands,brute strength, and luckily for Curley, George restraint on his friend.

Now George is a good man, in a sense, but in situations like the fight in the bunkhouse of the ranch, he lets Lennie fight his own battles, knowing that such a huge man can defend himself physically. Lennie, is huge, and can defend himself physically, but is defenseless emotionally. Lennie finds himself fixated on small useless things, and cannot control himself in some situations. For example when Slim, a ranch hand who demands respect and may be having an affair with Curley’s wife,’s dog has puppies and gives one to Lennie, this start to head downhill at the ranch.

Lennie is too big for his own good and ends up killing the puppy,unknowingly, and gets depressed about it for a while. George, who is supposed to be a good person, doesn’t really help Lennie get over his beloved puppy’s death.The death of his puppy leads to a depressed Lennie speaking to his puppy and Curley’s ife coming to ‘comfort’ him. Curley’s wife forces herself upon Lennie, which Lennie doesn’t respond to based on George’s warning not to speak to that woman, and the Wife continues to speak to Lennie.

He explains that he likes to touch soft things, like her hair, which leads to Curley’s wife trying to get away, screaming under Lennie’s strong hands, and Lennie shaking her , like he did the puppy, and accidently breaking her neck. This moment brings George and Lennie’s friendship to light. Will George actually live up to his ‘good’ name?Despite George’s tough demeanor, george has to go help his friend, for if the ranch hands get to Lennie first, they will not hesitate to kill him. George finds Lennie, tries to comfort him as best as he can, and lets Lennie lead himself into a place of paradise and shoots him.

George feels terrible and despite Slim’s words,” You hadda, I swear you hadda.” This man is terribly lost without his friend. Now George, who had seemed emotionless and only caring about the money, really did care about Lennie, and didn’t feel like it was his ‘obligation’ to Aunt Clara to take care of him. Milton didn’t necessarily need to kill Lennie, since if he did not reach him first he would’ve died anyway. However this task, of which he took upon himself, did prove that George Milton, was in fact a true friend.

In the beginning of this piece of literature, Milton is portrayed as a person who could really care less about the welfare of his disabled friend, Lennie Small. Despite all of the bad that Lennie had put him through, George would eventually give Lennie, the peace that he had always wanted. Lennie had always wanted George’s approval, whether that be even before his death.Before his death, Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George.” Then George said, "No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now.

That's a thing I want ya to know."