Similarities Between John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In Of Mice and Men there are a lot of times that show that Lennie really likes touching soft things. These times also show that he usually hurts everything he pets without trying to. Around the beginning of the book George told Lennie, That mouse isn’t fresh Lennie, and besides you broke it petting it. You can see that Lennie isn’t mean because he didn’t know he hurt the mouse. Another example of Lennie hurting something that he pets is the puppy he got, but this time was different because Lennie actually realized what happened. Both of these examples end up leading up to one of the most important scenes in the entire book, When Curley’s wife comes into the barn and Lennie ends up snapping her neck by accident. The book left me confused at