Chronicles of the two rancher John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, produced a novel about the struggles and life challenges of two ranch workers that struggle to stay on one ranch for a while. The two ranchers known as Lennie Smalls and George Milton have been working together for years and sadly Lennie suffers from a mental disorder so he is a handful to handle. Throughout the novella, the author portrays a series of events that goes from Lennie and Goerge being welcomed and friendly with everyone at the new ranch, to an outburst of unintentional violence and a few deaths. A theme developed in the novel as Lennie and George reach a new ranch, is friendship.George and Lennie are new to the ranch, and they are welcomed by the boss …show more content…
On the ranch, there is one person Lennie and George don't want anything to do with and that is Curley's wife. Curley is very controlling and doesn't want her to talk to the other men, but she gets lonely and does it anyway and causes many problems. One evening Lennie was in the barn with his pup, and she wandered into the barn looking for someone to talk to. Soon after a while of arguing with Lennie, they sat down and she allowed him to touch her soft hair and he got attached to it. Unintentionally, Lennie scared her and she let out a cry for help and the situation escalated quickly and Lennie accidentally snapped her neck with his big bear hands. “Curley's wife lay on her back, and she was half covered with hay”(Steinbeck 92). Lennie was confused and freaking out so he had to cover the motionless body with Hay and find a way to escape the situation. “He crept to the barn wall and peered out between the cracks”( Steinbeck 92). Lennie's mind was in a different world at this point and his first thought was to escape before the body is found and he is targeted by crazy Curley. Running, for his life, Lennie fled to the brush by the river. “And then he crept around the end of the last manger and disappeared”(Steinbeck 92). Lennie now knows that he messed up more than he ever has before so he has to escape the ranch before he gets caught and tortured by the men. Although it was all a freak accident,