Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In the book “Of Mice and Men,” there are two men traveling together from farm to farm. Their names are George and Lennie. George is “small and quick, dark of face,with restless eyes and sharp, strong features.” Lennie is a “huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders.” They both come to a farm and there they start working. Lennie kills a dog and a woman by petting them too hard. So after that George shoots Lennie. George did a bad thing shooting Lennie because George doesn’t have a companion, George loses happiness and George loses all the hope of getting the farm.

George did not want to kill Lennie, but he had no other choice. George loses his companion in a few seconds. “Lennie jarred

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