One of John Steinbeck’s famous works, Of Mice and Men, is a story about two brothers - Lennie and George. Steinbeck depicts Lennie and George’s experience in a ranch. He not only dcorruption happens easily in an unbalanced society. Lennie and George’s relationship is very subtle in the story. They are like brothers and the spiritual support of each other. They finally got jobs in a ranch and met different kinds of people. Lennie’s innocence led him to a marginal situation. George decided to kill Lennie. Their dream was ruined. Of Mice and Men shows that people’s dream always turns out to disillusion and they cannot even help the corruption in a disordered society. Because of the context of the story, the great depression, the society
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“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is” (Steinbeck 79). Even though I believe that the relationship between them is genuine brotherhood, George and Lennie do not give and receive equally like other friends do. “Though he cares for Lennie, George often find his companion to be more trial than a blessing since his mentally challenged friend impedes George from the pleasures in life he most desire: eating food, drinking whiskey, play cards, shooting pool, and enjoying the sexual company of women. Such imposition anger George, and he is constantly contemplating how comfortable he would be if he did not have to worry about Lennie” (Meyer 298). George has to take care of Lennie. He sees it as his responsibility. But, unfortunately, Lennie has been an obstacle for George to achieve their dream for sure. They lost their jobs, had to escape and often cannot keep their jobs because of Lennie. If George could have decided to dump Lennie and chased for his own dream, things would be way easier. But Lennie’s companionship has become a part of George. "With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not …show more content…
“Heterosexual desire is carefully policed, in other words, relegated to the margins and incorporated into the capitalistic economy that governs the normative world of ranch” (Person 152). When God created human, he created both man and woman because he wanted to establish a balanced world. The ranch is not a place like that. “Curley’s wife emphasizes the fragility of this economy because she crosses the carefully drawn lines between the ranch house and the bunk house, the owners and the workers, and she exaggerates the fault lines between homosocial and hetersexual desires” (Person 152). Her appearance threatens the workers on the ranch and she attracts them at the same time. Men on the ranch fight, abuse and do whatever they feel like doing because they got no female, no family and balanced society. They produced fights themselves. Their distorted hearts caused they will never be able to achieve their
“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is” (Steinbeck 79). Even though I believe that the relationship between them is genuine brotherhood, George and Lennie do not give and receive equally like other friends do. “Though he cares for Lennie, George often find his companion to be more trial than a blessing since his mentally challenged friend impedes George from the pleasures in life he most desire: eating food, drinking whiskey, play cards, shooting pool, and enjoying the sexual company of women. Such imposition anger George, and he is constantly contemplating how comfortable he would be if he did not have to worry about Lennie” (Meyer 298). George has to take care of Lennie. He sees it as his responsibility. But, unfortunately, Lennie has been an obstacle for George to achieve their dream for sure. They lost their jobs, had to escape and often cannot keep their jobs because of Lennie. If George could have decided to dump Lennie and chased for his own dream, things would be way easier. But Lennie’s companionship has become a part of George. "With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not …show more content…
“Heterosexual desire is carefully policed, in other words, relegated to the margins and incorporated into the capitalistic economy that governs the normative world of ranch” (Person 152). When God created human, he created both man and woman because he wanted to establish a balanced world. The ranch is not a place like that. “Curley’s wife emphasizes the fragility of this economy because she crosses the carefully drawn lines between the ranch house and the bunk house, the owners and the workers, and she exaggerates the fault lines between homosocial and hetersexual desires” (Person 152). Her appearance threatens the workers on the ranch and she attracts them at the same time. Men on the ranch fight, abuse and do whatever they feel like doing because they got no female, no family and balanced society. They produced fights themselves. Their distorted hearts caused they will never be able to achieve their