A True Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

A True Friendship in Of Mice And Men “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in times of happiness.”(euripides) This quote expresses George and Lennie's true friendship in Of Mice and Men, a fiction novel by John Steinbeck, that expresses a true friendship between two men. George and Lennie are true friends because they care about each other and that is what keeps them close, they wanted to have a future together, and they are not lonely like everyone else on the farm. Lennie and George care about each other, and that is what keeps them close. Throughout the novel George and Lennie show how much they care about each other and how they would do anything to protect each other. An example of this in the novel is “Well that girl go an’ tells the law she been rapped.”(chapter 3) After this the police began to search for Lennie to arrest him but George protected him and ran away with him to a farm where they could work and be taken care of. This shows that George isn't just there for …show more content…
The reason George and Lennie are not lonely is because they have each other while other people on the farm such as Crooks, Curley, and Curley's wife don't have anyone. A direct quotation that supports this is when when Lennie is talking to Crooks and Crooks says “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely here.”(chapter 4) This supports the statement above because Crooks tells how working on the farm day after day and then traveling to another farm with no one gets lonely. Another direct quotation is “I want you to stay with me, Lennie”(chapter 1) This supports that they do not and are not lonely because they have each other. One last thing that supports that others are lonely on the farm is although Curley and his wife are married Curley is always at the farm so his wife gets lonely and tries to talk to the other men. That is why George and Lennie are different from other people on the