optimistic laborers who work the dusty vegetable fields of California.

Their names are Lennie Small and George Milton... with George being the

leader. Lennie is a man of tremendous size, but due to a mental

shortcoming had the mind of a young child. George on the other hand was

The book joins our characters on their way to a new job on a ranch in the

Salinas Valley. They are hot and tired and bothered after being duped by a

bus driver into walking about four miles. At this point they stop for a

drink and a rest at a little at a watering hole (the Salinas River

actually). At this point we discover that Lennie has a weakness for soft

things.. i.e mice and this had caused them to be ran out of Weed, a town

upstate, after Lennie had grab the hold of a womans dress and refused to

let go. The woman then thought she was being attacked and the townsfolk

sent a lynch mob after George and Lennie. They managed to escpae after

hiding in a drain pipe that whole day. This incident greatly angers George

because it lost them their job and out their dreams one step further away.

Their goal was to own a shack and an a

with Crooks, the black stable-boy about the precious puppies, one of which

Lennie is approached by Curley's wife. Remembering that George said not to

to scream at Curley's wife as if he had just found her there and that

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