Of Mice and Men George and Lennie are travelling workers who travel around ranches looking for work. Lennie is a big, coarse man yet he is mentally undeveloped and George is small yet is smarter, and therefore leads and takes care of Lennie. Lennie has a fetish for soft things and when he pets mice and small animals he, unknowingly kills them by squeezing too hard. The men’s plan is to make enough money …showed first 75 words of 660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 660 total…lives alone so he never talks to anyone about life and non-ranch related things. Since he’s a stable buck, everyone basically leaves him a lone because he gets very little respect as it is so they want to give him privacy and hardly ever socialize with him. George, although with Lennie, is often times lonely because of Lennie’s mentality. George is always sacrificing himself and his happiness for the sake of dumb Lennie.