Steinbeck portrays friendship as a good thing to life in Of Mice and Men, but it won’t always end up being a cohesive unit the majority of the time. Through George and Lennie, we are able to see how he believes friendship is an important part of our everyday lives. Without friendship, we would have a void in our life, that couldn’t be filled by anything else. During the Great Depression, it was someone to turn to, if you were going through a rough time. George may have never thought that friendship was a vital part of his life, but in reality is was a big part. He saw it as a problem and inconvenience, because Lennie wasn’t the easiest person to deal with. Whenever Lennie would want to pet something, George would find it a huge problem and