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"Of Mice and Men" is a novella by John Steinbeck that follows the story of two migrant workers, George and Lennie, during the Great Depression in California. The book explores themes of friendship, loneliness, and the pursuit of the American Dream. It ultimately examines the challenges and vulnerabilities of individuals living on the margins of society.

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Of Mice And Men is about 2 men who go and look for work during the great depression. It shows how hard it was to get a job. Lennie who has a mental disorder makes it difficult for George to even keep a job.
It was written by John Steinbeck in 1937, and is a story about two characters who are talking as they walk along looking for work. The main character is Lennie Small. He is mentally disabled but no-one knows why. Maybe he was born that way but that we do not know. The other is George Milton. He is the smart one of them both.

As they walk, Lennie asks George if they could buy a house together, with a farm. George agrees. We also learn that Lennie likes to pet soft animals, such as mice and puppies, which he often kills by mistake! And we also find out that he has a dead mouse in his pocket, which greatly angers George. George throws it across the river.

Two other main characters are the boss's son, Curley, and Curley's wife (It's a shame no one knew her name.) George warns Lennie to keep away from both of them. Two days later we find Lennie alone in a barn, with a puppy he had accidentally killed. Curley's wife comes in. Lennie starts stroking her hair, but in a little struggle he breaks her neck by accident (killing her) as he doesn't know his own strength.

Curley finds out it was Lennie who killed his wife, and goes out with all the employees to find Lennie. George stays at work but he knows where Lennie would go, so he takes a handgun he had secretly stolen from Carlson and goes to find Lennie, by the banks of the Salinas River. He finds Lennie and calms him down, but Lennie asks loads of questions about the house they are going to buy together. George tells Lennie to look the other way. Lennie always does what George tells him. As Lennie is looking away, George pulls out the gun and shoots Lennie, his friend, in the back of the head, killing him instantly.

At the sound of the gun, the men come running. Curley, Carlson and Slim see that Lennie is dead, and all know that it was George who did it. George tells them that Lennie had the stolen gun, and that he, George, had gotten it away from him and then killed him. Slim, a very friendly and wise ranch-hand, gets close to George and whispers to him "You hadda, George. I swear you hadda, Come on with me." and they go off to get a drink together.

As Carlson and Curley watch Slim lead George away, Carlson says to Curley ...

---- Whilst the story is about characters living during the American depression, the title of the book provides the clue to the over-riding 'message' of the story, that "the best laid plans of Mice and Men often turn out ugly", a line from Robert Burns poignant poem 'To A Mouse On turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough' (1785)

* For a copy of this poem, see Related links below this box

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''Of Mice And Men'' is a story of the extrodinary friendship between two workers at the time of Great Depression in America.(1930's)

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