Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”-Euripides. In the book by John Steinbeck titled “Of Mice and Men”, the two main characters George and Lennie work on a ranch. George is the caretaker to Lennie who has a mental disability. Friendship is an important part of life is a common theme of Slim and George, Candy and his dog, and George and Lennie throughout the novel. Slim and George have an important friendship built through working and living together on the ranch. After George kills Lennie, Slim says,“Come on, George. Me an’ you’ll go in an’ get a drink”(Page 107). This shows how important Slim and George’s friendship is because he is the only person to comfort George after he just had to kill his best friend. George