A Summary Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

George and Maggie have a dream they want to achieve. On their way to the ranch with Lennie. “O.K. Someday - we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’a cow and some pigs and -.” (Steinbeck, 14). Maggie comes from Southern Missouri and came to Los Angeles to become a professional boxer. George dreams of buying a ranch and Maggie comes from across the

Lennie has his mind set on one thing. That is getting out of the barn and getting his own piece of land with George. This dream motivates Lennie to always listen and follow what George says. There he can finally tend the rabbits he has always wanted. Lennie loves petting things such as small animals and dresses which usually leads him to trouble.

Lennie Small is a stable, but physically strong man who is George’s partner and is his constant and trustworthy companion. He has a habit for soft things, considering the fact that he is a big person and that he enjoys little, soft items in which that some of these can lead to trouble for him.

     Friendship has a big part to do with Lennie and George’s dream of owning a small farm and raising animals. George and Lennie both set their mind to accomplish their dream and go to work on a ranch for little pay. Another friend of George overhears George and

Lennie and George have a stunning relationship throughout the story.The fact that George could just leave Lennie in Salinas River where he raped the the girl with the red dress,George could have just let him go to jail where nobody knows why he done that except George his only friend .Lennie Small is huge and lumbering and, in many ways, the opposite of George Milton. Where George has sharp features and definite lines, Lennie is "shapeless." Often he is described in terms of animals. He lumbers like a bear and has the strength of a bear, but his actions are often described like those of a dog.

George reminds Lennie to stay away from Curley and his wife because their trouble. A fight broke out between Curley and Lennie. Curley accused Lennie of laughing at him. Curley throws the first punch and Lennie responds by grabbing Curley's fist in a tight hold. Curley's hand starts bleeding baldy. The co-workers threaten turkey to not say anything. Curley agrees and says his hand got caught in a machine. The next day, Curley's wife is suspicious on how Lennie got his bruises on his face. She figures out that Curley caused them. Later on, all the boys except lennie are playing horseshoes. Lennie goes into the barn to play with his puppy. As expected, Lennie killed the puppy because he wasn’t gentle. In this moment, Curley's wife decided to enter the

George also warns Lennie to not be near Curley’s wife, as he senses trouble between the two. Nevertheless, at the conclusion of the book, Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife after trying to calm her down (as she was screaming for help because Small would not let go of her soft hair). Overall, Lennie’s outstanding physical strength combined with his lack of intelligence and moral sense makes him dangerous without George monitoring him constantly.

John Steinbeck, an American novelist, is well-known for his familiar themes of depression and loneliness. He uses these themes throughout a majority of his novels. These themes come from his childhood and growing up during the stock market crash. A reader can see his depiction of his childhood era. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the prominent themes of loneliness, the need for relationships, and the loss of dreams in the 1930s through the novels’ character.

Lennie is mentally challenging and has strength that he can’t control as much, so George takes care of him and himself. Lennie likes to feel soft things and holds on to them which led to them not being able to stay in Weeds because of Lennie actions. For this reason, George and Lennie came across a barn and started a new life with the same dream, to live on a farm and tend the rabbits. However, that dream is no longer coming true because of Lennie uncontrollable strength. Lennie kills Curleyś wife.

Lennie and George had trouble in Weed as Lennie likes to touch and stroke soft materials such as fur. Lennie was touching a girl's soft dress however she did not want him to touch her dress. When she tried to pull away, Lennie would not let go as he froze with shock. When the girl yelled she claimed Lennie had raped, Lennie and George had to run away for their own safety as the men at the ranch tried to capture them. This meant they would have to migrate to another ranch.

Two workers, George and Lennie, have been let off a bus a few miles away from the California farm where they are going to start work. George is a small, dark with sharp, strong features. Lennie, his friend, is his opposite, a big guy with a “shapeless” face. They stop in a clearing by a pool and decide to camp for the night. It soon becomes clear that Lennie has a mental disability, which means he depends on George to do everything for him. George finds that Lennie, who loves petting soft things but often accidentally kills them, has been carrying and a dead mouse. George throws it away. George complains that his life would be easier without having to care for Lennie. George and Lennie share a dream of buying their own piece of land. Lennie

Carlson convinces candy to let him shoot his dog. Meanwhile slim gives Lennie a pup because he knew Lennie wanted one. While Curley’s accuses slim of sleeping with his wife, which causes Curley and Lennie to start a fight, which results in Curley’s hand to be broken. Finally Slim tells Curley how it is going to be with the fight that he got his hand caught in a machine.

The novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, portrays incredible characters and important messages. The novel is about two men, Lennie and George, who both begin a new job at a ranch. At the ranch, Lennie and George meet a number of other workers. As the novel progresses, a specific theme is displayed through the workers. The characters showed and the message presented are some of the reasons why many found the book enjoyable.

In John Steinbeck's novel “Of Mice and Men,” made into an enduringly popular movie, the lines about the rabbits have became emblems for the whole relationship between George and Lennie -- the quiet-spoken farm laborer and the sweet, retarded cousin he has taken under his arm. I would not have thought I could believe the line about the rabbits one more time, but this movie made me do it, as Lennie asks about the farm they'll own one day, and George says, yes, it will be just as they've imagined it.

Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is a classic American novel, telling the fictional story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant workers, working on a ranch in Soledad,California. Selling 500,000 first edition copies, Of Mice and Men is a book high school students have read for generations. Forced or reading for fun, one can claim that moralistic values on compassion, dreams, and friendship can be heavily influenced through analyzing Steinbeck’s portrayal of his characters’ struggle in life.