Though he knows, and has no problem saying, that he might be better off without having to care for Lennie, George has a steadfast loyalty towards his friend that goes beyond appearances. Though Lennie can easily anger George with his behaviour, George is just as easily cooled with sympathy, guilt and pity for Lennie’s simplicity and innocence. Lennie doesn’t seem to know his own strength and they had to flee from their last job after some trouble. Lennie is a huge man but very simple-minded and his impulsive unthinking actions often bring annoyance to George and trouble for them both. George is small and sharp with good sense that is easily frustrated. George and Lennie may seem an odd pair, distinctly contrasted as they are. They are headed for a ranch where they hope they can find work. Two men, George and Lennie, are journeying on foot through rural Depression-era California. If this best-read work by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck seems familiar, it may because it distils storytelling methods that have been effective in the past while providing a blueprint that can be reimagined for different times and places in the future. A tragic story of thwarted ambition and the American Dream, Of Mice and Men has become a classroom staple with its hints of class struggle, race and sexism alongside the main theme of friendship and loyalty.
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