Answer:
The most prominent distinction between than is compassion. George only became a compassionate person, when it was too late.
Step-by-step explanation:
George was a rich white man who falls in love with Rena, however he rejects her when he discovers that she is black. He becomes horrified by her racial impurity. In the end of the book, he reconciles with his own beliefs and realizes that his beliefs were the problem and when he decides to reunite with Rena is too late, because she dies before they can be together again.
Maurice was a man who found connection with god during painfull, difficult and hard times of his life.
George was empathetic, volatile and hostile, meanwhile Maurice was compassionate, sentimental and distressed. So the most prominent distinction between them is compassion. George only became a compassionate person, when it was too late.