Quote: “God, you’re a lot of trouble,’ said George. ‘I could get along so easy and nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl’” (7).
In this quote from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George expresses that Lennie is a burden to him, and that he could get on better without him. At this time, George and Lennie are recalling what happened in Weed, which is the town that they ran from. George is frustrated by Lennie’s continuous mistakes.
When George says that Lennie is ‘a lot of trouble’, he is referencing all the times that Lennie’s disability caused him to be involved in inconvenient situations. Lennie lives a mostly carefree life as he is oblivious to his own errors, but