Of Mice And Men: An Analysis

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In his novel “Of Mice and Men”, Steinbeck suggests that as humans, we are unable to accomplish our dreams if we do not have companions that have the same dreams as we do.
George and Lennie are two characters who have a life long dream of living off the land, where they couldn't get canned by anybody, and they wouldn’t have to work for anyone. In the beginning of the book, Lennie got both of them kicked out of the town of Weed because he grabbed onto a lady’s dress because it was red and soft. George later found another ranch that they could work at it in the town of Soledad. George and Lennie stumbled onto a ranch where they met Crooks and “the boss”. In this novel, Lennie told Crooks, an African American stable buck, about his and Lennie's

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