Set in this time period, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck writes about two young nomadic workers named George Milton and Lennie Small who begin working at a small ranch in the Salinas Valley of California. The men met a variety of different people while starting work there, most notably Candy, Curley's wife, and Crooks; people who stuck out and were ignored because of their physical traits. ... She was the wife of a man who would always pick fights with bigger men and who hated seeing her talk with others. Therefore, all the men on the ranch learned to not talk to her at all, in order no...

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That was the kind of friendship George Milton and Lennie Small had in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. ... Throughout the book, George and Lennie's quintessence of friendship motivates a lot of the characters: it makes Candy and Crooks want to join up with them on their plan to own their own land; it shows Slim a rather pure way of living life with other people; Crooks realizes that he does not have to despise "white people"; and Curley's wife realizes how unhappy her marriage is with her husband when she talks to Lennie about his dream with George. ...

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