book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author reveals many aspects about George and Lennie's personalities and their friendship. There is no doubt that, looking at George and Lennie's relationship (in the 1930s) from a 21st century middle class point of view, George was harsh, mean, and derogatory to Lennie. However, it is also very evident that George never left Lennie even though his life would've been much easier ... way George communicated with Lennie, or the things he said to him were very cruel and degrading, for he sometimes swore at him and called him a bastard when he would do...

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... accomplishments, rather than to judge the "correctness of his position regarding contemporary urgencies and controversies" (Tedlock 20). In George Snell's chapter on Steinbeck in The Shapers of American Fiction: 1798-1947, he notes Steinbeck's strengths and weaknesses: "an enormous gift of story-telling", "catholicity of sympathy" and "'common touch,'" ease of character creation through "types" rather than "individuals," "love of exaggeration and a resulting humor," and "a basic sentimentalism" which results in his "gravest weakness" (French ... the most superficial but convenient ideat...

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• Grade Level: High School