Of mice and men character review:

Of mice and men character review:

George
A compassionate, kind, responsible, patient, and understanding man, he faithfully watches out for Lennie, his mentally disabled friend and constant companion. When Lennie gets into trouble, George always helps him find a solution or get away. George is also shown to be a thinking person. He knows he must discipline Lennie in order to help him, and he is often seen telling Lennie what he has done wrong and what he must do to improve. George is sometimes portrayed as short tempered often snapping at Lennie for doing things wrong.

Lennie
Lennie is George’s friend and constant companion, who is mentally disabled and highly dependent on George. He suffers from a child’s mentality within a giant’s body. He is innocent and forgetful like a child. He is also attracted to small, soft things because of his child-like, gentle nature. Unfortunately, he often harms the things he loves accidentally. As a huge man with heavy arms and powerful hands, he does not know or understand his own strength.Although he doesn't mean to cause problems he often does as he doesn't understand his strength.

Candy
Candy is a very old ranch hand who is crippled and lonely. Steinbeck paints him as the sad, stereotyped symbol of old age, a man whose life is void of friends and hope. His dog, who is his only companion, is very much like him, old and crippled; but he also stinks and is blind. As a result, the ranch hands insist that Candy allow them to shoot the old mutt. When the dog is dead, Candy truly has nothing, no reason for existence. Then he overhears George and Lennie discussing their dream of owning a farm. Candy asks permission to join them and offers his life savings to help purchase the land. He wants to live his last days with a feeling of peace and belonging. At the end of his days, Candy does not want to be treated like his old dog.

Curley's Wife
Curley’s wife, the only woman on the ranch on the ranch, is really a minor character in the story. In fact, she is never actually named in the course of the book. She serves only as the instrument of the destruction of Lennie and the dream. Steinbeck is not kind in his brief portrayal of her. She is a coarse, vulgar woman who wears too much make-up and flirts with every ranch hand. She has married Curley only because she had no other offers. Her true dream was to become and actress, but the man who was supposed to help her get in the movies failed her. Curleys wife is often portrayed as a lonely as she is the only woman on the ranch.

Curley
Curley is the boss’ son, who has a short stature and a large temper. He wears a glove full of Vaseline to keep his hand soft for her and it becomes a source of constant jokes amongst the ranch hands. Though he seems to love his wife.  He is overly possessive of his wife and suspects that every man on the ranch desires her. When Curley picks a fight with the giant Lennie, he bites off more than he can handle. Lennie quickly crushes his hand, and Curley has to be taken to the hospital. He vows to get revenge on Lennie.

 Slim
Compared to his co-workers, Slim is confident in his conduct and clear in his speech. As a result, he is treated with respect on the ranch. He is quite surprised to see the loyalty and companionship of George and Lennie and comments, “Ain’t many guys travel around together, I don’t know why. May be everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”  He is a good judge of people and quickly understands, that in spite of his size, “Lennie ain’t mean”. When Lennie crushes Curley’s hand, it is Slim who convinces him not to tell anyone about his fight with Lennie.