George And Lennie's Relationship

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a novella that follows two characters from the story, George and Lennie, on their journey to find a job during the Great Depression. A positive relationship in the text that was important to the text as a whole was the friendship between George and Lennie. This relationship was important to the text as a whole because it helps the reader understand three main ideas; friendship can protect us from the negative effects of loneliness, dreams give us hope and motivation, and the American Dream is not realistic. Firstly, George and Lennie’s positive relationship is important to the novella as a whole because it shows that friendship can protect us from the negative effects of loneliness. An example from the text is, "George can tell you screwy things, and it don’t matter. It’s just the talking. It’s just bein’ with another guy. That’s all." This quote from the text is when Crooks is talking to Lennie about

A quote in the text that shows this is "-I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He Usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would." This quote shows George talking about how him and Lennie's dream would never come true now that Lennie was just about a dead man. Without Lennie, George can’t seem to envision the dream anymore, because after all, it is their dream, not just his. No matter how hard the pair worked, one unintentional mistake resulted in their dreams crashing down. Not to mention that their dream wasn’t even irrational; they didn’t dream to be rich or famous, just to be able to live under a roof with each other. This idea reveals to the reader that at the end of the day, a dream is just a make-believe vision and in most instances, does not come true just like how it didn’t for George and