... , the answer should be no. There was nothing surprising about Lennie Small's actions in John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men. The author foreshadows Lennie's fate by subtle and obvious ways. When Lennie has the dead mouse in his pocket and George says, "That mouse ain't fresh, Lennie; and besides, you've broke it pettin" it" (9), it shows Lennie's history of destructive behavior. Lennie isn't careful with ... makes sure that Lennie doesn't forget where to hide because he forgets things so easily. An example of this is when he forgot where they were going in chapter one. George knew Le...

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... ? How about the one who holds you back, yet you still stay with them every step of the way? That was the kind of friendship George Milton and Lennie Small had in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This story takes place in Soledad, California in the mid 1900s where it was hard to live on your own; where everybody fell into ... Lennie is, but doesn't leave him alone like Lennie wants him to do. So George tries to show Lennie his wrongs and help him to try and correct them by not repeating them again as he shows later on in the first chapter on page 15 where George asks Lennie, "W...

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