Thursday, March 21, 2013

What are some similarities between George and Lennie? I need a quote from the book Of Mice and Men as support.

In Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie
are peas in a pod, two sides of the same coin, too sides of a man's brain.  They are
foils of each other: one big, one small; one naive, the other experienced; one a child,
the other a parent.  To use Freud's terms, George is the Superego (the social, moral
side), Lennie is the Id (the hidden desire side).  As such, they are
inseparable.


Both have a strong work ethic, are good
workers (though Lennie is better), and are believers in the American dream.  George
defines them in the first person plural: "we" and "us."  They are team; their dreams are
shared:



"Guys
like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in
the world.  They got no family. They don't belong no place....With
us it ain't like that. We got
a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn
about us." Chapter 1, pp.
13-14


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