5/8/12

Human relationships are extremely important. Who we associate ourselves with, and live around effect almost every aspect of our lives. So when two men with contrasting personalities who frustrate each other, get the other in trouble, and cause problems all over the place continue to travel and live with one another despite the conflicts you know there must be something binding them. The names of these two men are George and Lennie, and this is how the two main characters live and survive life in the west during the dustbowl in John Steinbeck's book, Of Mice and Men (OMM). George and Lennie often make empty threats to leave one another, but one would never really leave the other. They have a special relationship. Each one benefits from the other, and they would never give up what they had. George, out of fear that Lennie wouldn't be able to care for himself, and Lennie, because he likes George, he listens to him and takes care of him. Also, they both share a common dream, to share a plot of land, and start a small ranch with the money they earn from traveling to other different ranches and working the land. That is the deep reason that they may not even think of themselves, of why they are inseparable.