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George And Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men there are two main characters named George and Lennie. George and Lennie were trying to live the American Dream. The American Dream in the Great Depression was to own land. So they are trying to get a job at a ranch. They do this because they are trying to get enough money so that they can buy their own land and so that they can grow their own crops and raise their some animals. Once George and Lennie get to the ranch they were first introduced by an old man named Candy. Candy then helps lead them to the owner of the ranch so that they can get to work. After they are able to work they get settled in the place they will be sleeping in. While George and Lennie are getting everything ready so that they can go to sleep, they are introduced by Curley’s wife. And once George sees her he immediately thinks she is trouble and tells Lennie to ignore her as much as possible. The next day George and Lennie get to work once they get up. Once they got to work Lennie was one of the strongest men at the ranch and the other workers couldn’t keep up with him. A couple of days have passed and Candy overheard that George and Lennie were going to buy a small farm. Candy told them if he could …show more content…

Lennie has been playing with the puppy ever since and then the puppy died because Lennie was petting it too hard, then he tried to bury it in the barn. While Lennie was trying to bury the puppy Curley's wife entered the barn and asked what did he bury, and Lennie got spooked because George said not to talk to her and walked to the other side of the barn, and she saw the dead puppy. Lennie didn’t want her to tell anybody. So Lennie and Curley’s wife were talking and she told Lennie to stroke her hair and Lennie couldn’t stop and she tried running away and Lennie grabbed her by the neck and accidentally killed her by snapping her neck. Then Lennie ran away to the spot George told him to if he got into any

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