Comparing Relationships In Romeo And Juliet And Lennie

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A clear difference between the relationships of Romeo and Juliet ,and George and Lennie the amount of key components they have to make their relationship strong. For a strong relationship to become present both people have to be patient. They have to be patient because if they are not they could rush into things and make the wrong decisions. Making the wrong decisions because they rushed into it happens frequently in the book “Romeo and Juliet”. Romeo and Juliet get married in less than 24 hours of knowing each other which results in them thinking they are in love. They should not have rushed the relationship with marriage:
“ROMEO
O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
JULIET
What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?
ROMEO
The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.
JULIET
I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: …show more content…

In the quote Romeo is persuading Juliet to marry him. The line he uses to tell Juliet he wants to marry her is the line “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” Instead of wait a good amount of time after meeting they rushed into it which caused more problems after. Many people didn’t agree with this decision and it only made the feud and their circumstances worse. By getting married more people died as a result and even those two died because they thought they couldn’t live without the other. An occasion where George and Lennie’s relationship shows patience was when George tolerates repeating himself about their future to Lennie. Since Lennie frequently forgets things that George says he has to be reminded of those things more than once. Lennie loves to hear about what they will do once they have garnered enough money to buy their own place and what he will do at their new home. Even though Lennie never gets sick of hearing the story, George gets sick of telling Lennie over and over; ‘“I forgot,’ Lennie said softly. ‘I tried not to forget. Honest to God I did,

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