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Relationship Between George And Lennie's Wife

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Dear John Steinbeck, After reading your novel, Of Mice and Men I have begun to realize how important friendships are growing up. For me it’s very essential to have a few valuable friendships, like Lennie and George. I noticed that in your novel Lennie and George had a strong unconditional bond. The way they stuck by each other through thick and thin was inspiring. It would be a dream of anyone’s to have a an everlasting friendship like that. Also the unflattering portrayal of women struck me as a discourtesy, but in the context of this novel and time period, this depiction of women seems suitable but yet not respectful. Mainly in your novel you talked about the brotherhood bond between Lennie and George but to me I was able to relate that …show more content…

The part when George and Lennie got kicked off their Job due to Lennie’s foolish choice to touch a woman’s soft dress made me wonder. If Lennie only touched the dress due to it’s enticing softness was this really his fault at all? If not Lennie’s fault then whos, the woman’s fault or by default, your shortcoming of portraying woman in this novel as more of a sexual, unflattering characterization. Not by any means am I insulting your work, I thank you for it. The way you demonstrated how most men see women as unequal only made me want to succeed and to gain more self pride. I am a highschool student, I am also a girl and in highschool you don’t find too many willingly respectful guys who want to look at us girls the same as them. Many of the guys from my school like to think of girls as inferior, and your novel supports just that. If you men think us girls are to blame for all of your discourteousness then you’re wrong. When Lennie was accused of rape because he touched that womens dress, I thought to myself if that were me I would not have reacted the same way she did. Now maybe not every woman would have been okay with that but not by any means is what Lennie did or was said to have done considered rape, well not by today’s standards anyway. If a woman were to come onto a guy just like Curley’s

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