Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Friendship is one thing in our time that people deeply appreciate, a companion to follow you back when you travel, a friend that pushes the loneliness away. In the novella written by John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie the main characters had one of these mutually beneficial relationship, which gave them hope throughout the novella. As we read the story we get some of the information about the characters and their personalities, For example we get a glimpse of Lennie's behavior( mental immaturity) and George's plan artistic mind and how organized he is keeping track of Lennie. We see that George and Lennie need each other, and that George is somewhat a father figure to Lennie, for behavior and for his life instructions, this is because George does his management from what he can and can't have and what to do, because of his mental immaturity. Even so on the other hand Lennie is not useless as some may think, he provides George with companionship, and physically protects George because he is is so muscularly built in size. From end to end of the story we see that George and Lennie symbiotic relationship gives each other hope and keeps them united through the novella. This shows that friendships are needed to keep their

Steinbeck born in Salinas, California took inspiration from his life when he was hired on a ranch in California and took his personal experience with the land and the talks he had with the migrant workers during the Great depression deeply influenced his writing and later which brought up the characters of Lennie and George and the other characters on the ranch around them because that how his ranch was and everybody had their own problems but most did not help one another. Thus having Lennie and George with such a strong relationship prevailing such a strong message connect deeply back to the home