... Men" The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck takes place during the great depression in California. There are two main characters named Lennie Small and George Milton who have just escaped from a farm after Lennie was wrongly accused of rape. Lennie is a mentally deficient, yet submissive man. George on the other hand is a smaller man but ... obsession with soft things and he loves to pet them. This is how George gets himself into trouble. But George tells Lennie if there is ever a time that he is trouble, he should return to the brush near the river and wait for George to find him. ...

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