Friendship was a very important role during the Great depression and the Dust bowl in the 1930s. The book Of Mice and Men took place in the Great depression and the Dust bowl. The author John Steinbeck made this book in a realistic fiction and novella genre. In this Book George always gets Lennie out of trouble and they get a new job after running from the last city that they were in. Well Lennie finds himself in some more trouble and this time George can't get him out. Steinbeck in this book Of Mice and Men shows how important friendship really is by the characters George/Lennie, Candy/his dog, and Lennie with animals. To Begin, George and Lennie are very important to have in this book to show how important friendship really is especially during a time where majority of the people were all alone. George and Lennie are really good friends, even if no one thinks they really are. George always gets Lennie out of trouble and George doesn't just leave Lennie to die or get locked up. The kind of relationship for George and Lennie would be a mutualism relationship, because George gets protection from Lennie and Lennie gets someone who will take care of him. George didn't have to stay to take care of george, he could've left george to get locked …show more content…
Candy and his dog are really close friends. You can tell that by him saying he shouldn't of let someone kill his dog that he didn't know too well. You would wanna put your dog down not someone you barely know. Candy and his dog relationship would be mutualism like George and Lennie. It's mutualism because they both get the company of each other. The dog smelled bad and everyone wanted to get rid of the dog but candy didn't because then he wouldn't have any company from an animal or a person that he knew for a long time. Those are some examples with evidence to show candy and his dog are a good example for friendship in this