George has a slight attitude around Lennie and Curley. He does not allow people to bully him. He even takes care of Lennie and comforts him as well. George is a short dark-skinned man who takes care of himself and Lennie also. “You can jus’ as well go to hell – shut up now” (Steinbeck 18). This shows that he is tough and demanding. Whenever George gets threatened, he uses this vulgarity to get him out of it.

George feels sympathy once in a while. He feels this a lot near the end of the novel. At the end, when he shoots Lennie in the back of the head, must have been his saddest moment. He never cries, but he always feels very down. “Guys like us got no fambly. They make a little stake an’ then they blow it in. They ain’t got nobody in the worl’ that gives a hoot in hell about “em-” (Steinbeck 114). This is really his last long dialogue before he kills Lennie. This shows how bad he is about to feel.

In summary, George was a short but muscular man who helped out his mentally challenged friend Lennie. He has a slight attitude problem that gets him in and out of trouble. He can show emotion every once in a while as well. He really is the average 1930″s man trying to make a living doing freelance ranch work. If not for Lennie then George would be a loner. He was a hard worker who never worked alone.