Of Mice and Men is a novella. Wrote by John Steinbeck and published in 1937. The book draws parallels to Robbert Burns's poem; To a Mouse. I genuinely enjoyed this novella due to the simplistic outer shell that when broken into reveals a deeper truth about life. The novella opens with a beautifully described scene of a lake, the mountains that surround it on one side and the forestry on the other. This scene contains no human interactions, just the wildlife. The following scene introduces us to our main characters. George is depicted as being small and bony while Lennie is described as being huge. Steinbeck compares Lennie's movement to a bear and throughout the novella, He continues to describe Lennie as an animal. We find out about their past's and how they got run …show more content…
George tells Lennie to stay away from Curly because He doesn't want any trouble. They see Curly's wife, she is purty according to Lennie but George wants nothing to do with her. George tells Lennie to stay away from her and that she's a rattrap. Later that evening George meets Slim and tells him more about what happened in Weed.They talk about Candy's old, half-blind, smelly dog and how Slim could gift a puppy to Candy, this gives Lennie the idea that he could receive a pup. Slims dog, Lulu, just had 9 puppies but Slim had to drown 4 of them because the mother couldn't provide food for all 9. Slim putting down 4 dogs for the sake of their well-being is tied directly to the end of the novella when George has to "put down" Lennie. Carlson offers to put down Candy's dog, Candy finally agreed to put the dog down. Carlson shoots the dog, as an act of kindness. This scene ties together the old dog and the theme of death. Candy walks into the bunkhouse, angrily asking if anyone knows where his wife was. The guys think there will be a fight between Curly and