In some ways, Lennie and George are almost like mates. Like mates, they sometimes argue and get on each other’s nerves, but no matter what, they are still friends until the end. Aside from that, George feels the need to make sure that Lennie is safe, in order to uphold Lennie’s Aunt Clara’s wishes. The quote taken from page 14 is an example of their friendship:“’…because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you…”.

George is an average, hard workingman. He is a quick thinker and is often found getting his friend, Lennie out of trouble. Lennie however is always getting himself into some kind of predicament. His large size and his slight retardation doesn’t help his problems, along with his love for soft things. Despite there differences they both have one thing that they can agree on. They both have a vision of one day owning their own ranch and being able to “…live off the fatta the lan’.”

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Together, the dynamic duo travels from location to location searching for a chance to make the dream of owning a farm a reality. To manage, they use each other’s strong points. If they didn’t stick together, they wouldn’t have any luck with anything. To their advantage, what one lacks, the other has a decent amount of it. Having spent most of their adulthood together, George and Lennie know each other better then anybody else in the world.

Even though George tries his best, he can’t change the fact that Lennie is retarded. Lennie is incredibly childish and always finds a way to embarrass George. For instance, whenever Lennie sees soft things he wants to grab, pet, and touch them. Throughout the story, the constant anxiety of Lennie’s disability starts to affect George and weigh him down. Because of Lennie, the two of them are transients. Wherever they relocate to, Lennie always seems to get himself into some kind of trouble. Even though that is the case, their friendship holds together and they are never separated. At the last place they moved from, Weed,

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