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In the novel Of Mice and Men Lennie is one of the main characters who shows loneliness and isolationism. The first sign Lennie shows about loneliness and isolationism is fear. Lennie is quite different from everyone else. Everyone always wants to pick on Lennie and sometimes Lennie doesn’t say anything back. He sits around and waits for George to say something for him. Lennie really cares for George and is afraid for George to leave him. One example of how Lennie is afraid for George to leave…

In “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck, two interlinked deaths are the deaths of Curley’s dog and Lennie. Comparing with the death of Lennie, which is the ending of the book at the meantime, the death of the old dog who was belonged to Candy can be regarded as an omen. Firstly, one point is that both the old dog and Lennie are unwanted to most people. Secondly, another aspect is that Candy is incapable to prevent his dog from being killed by Carlson, exactly as George’s inability to guard…

Mercy Killing or Murder: Where Is The Line Drawn? In various situations, committing a crime can be seen as a necessary action to save a person’s life in the long run. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Lennie Smalls and George Milton are two migrant workers who have been together since they can last remember. George took Lennie under his wing because of the mental problems Lennie has. While working on a ranch together, Lennie and George run into a very unique situation that neither of them…

In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. The author depicts the characters as emotionally desensitized and a lack of sensitivity. The novel takes place in the great depression and illustrates what life was like during the great depression. The novel's two main characters are George and Lennie. George and Lennie are best friends searching to find a job in California. During the Great Depression, it was uncommon for people to travel together. George is the leader of the two of them.…

Of Mice and Men Character Analysis Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, focuses on the lives of the protagonists’ Lennie Small and George Milton who are migrant workers during the Great Depression. Through Lennie’s character and the way he handles situations, the reader learns that Lennie has a mild mental disability and that George wants to help contain Lennie’s wild five year-old thoughts. George comes up with a dream of buying their own place, farming it, and letting Lennie tend rabbits.…

Dreams Make Life Worth Living John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Men tells the story of two unlikely friends. George Milton, and Lennie Small, a mentally disabled man, are travelling to a ranch in California to work. The men have a dream to one day have their own ranch and to be able to, as Lennie says, “live off the fatta the lan.” Throughout the book and film, produced in 1992, we follow the two men through their struggles, hardship, and ambition as they reach for their dream. Steinbeck…

In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck writes about the unlikely pair of travelers, George Milton and Lennie Small. This novella takes place during the Great Depression on a ranch in California. The people that make up the ranch are migrant farm workers, who are poor, desperate, and low in society. Lennie Small and George Milton are two of these ranchers. George Milton becomes a tragic hero in the story. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably…

The Struggles of Being a Migrant Worker. The characters in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck face struggles such as the idea of loneliness and motivation, when trying to achieve their goal. When migrant worker were working during the great depression, they did not really travel with others. This was mainly because of how hard it was to find a job for two people. This also lead to many people being angry, and having things go in the wrong way. This can be seen in the poem of “ To a…

The book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is a tale about two men who are immigrant workers back in the 1930’s and their journey through life. Throughout the book, the reader learns about two men, George and Lennie, and the troubles they face being migrant farm workers. George is a short man with strong features while Lennie is tall and less defined. In the book you discover the dream the two men have, their past struggles, and how they face each day. There are dozens of themes and…

In the novella of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck paints a depressing, but realistic portrait of America in the 1930s. He reveals what it was truly like to be a woman in that time period. Women back then were treated as nothing more than the property of men, they were possessions, they were objects. They were not their own person and the only identity that they had was that of their husband or their father. The role of a housewife was forced onto women, so much so that the only thing they could…