Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Miscellaneous Of Mice and Men4 Of Mice and Men4 The story starts when two traveling laborers, named George Milton and Lennie Small, are on their way to a job loading barley at a California ranch. . They spend one night along the Salinas River before going to the ranch that they were to work at. Because Lennie is slow, mentally, George acts as Lennie's guardian. They have been traveling together for a long time, since the death of Lennie's Aunt Clara. Also, Lennie's habit of petting soft things, such as a mouse or a rabbit, often gets them into trouble, which forces them to find a new job. Their dream is to own their own place and be their own bosses in the future. In their farm, Lennie wants to take care of rabbits and grow vegetables for them. When arriving at the ranch, an old man named Candy and his dog meets them. Candy then explains to them the ways of the ranch and the personalities of the other ranch hands. Soon, the boss enters the cabin to visit with his new workers, who is mad because Lennie and George are late for their first day. The boss asks a lot of questions, in which Lennie isn’t supposed to say anything, so George has to answer all of the questions. Eventually, Lennie answers one question in his own way. The boss ends up questioning them. Then we meet Curley's seductive wife. As usual, she is "looking for her husband" as an excuse to meet and attempt to seduce the other workers. Of course, George and Candy ignore her, but Lennie thinks otherwise. As George warns Lennie to stay away from her, Lennie shows that he wants to leave because he says it’s mean there. George says that they will leave as soon as they have enough money to get their farm. Soon, we get introduced to Slim, who announces that his dog just had puppies. He talks with Carlson about killing Candy’s old and frail dog and replacing it with one of the newborn puppies. Lennie is then trying to convince George to ask Slim if he can have a puppy. Afterwards, George talks with Slim about his relationship with Lennie. He says that Lennie isn’t smart, but is friendly. Carlson enters and continues to pressure Candy to allow him to kill his dog. Candy gives in when Slim joins in the argument. Later, he overhears George and Lennie talking about their dream and asks to be part of it, offering to advance half of the money they need. Curley joins and begins to hit Lennie. Lennie then doesn’t want to fight back until George tells him to. Lennie grabs Curley's hand and then breaks it by accident. Later that night, George and most of the other ranch hands are visiting a whorehouse. Lennie enters the room of the outcast, Crooks. At first, Crooks doesn’t like this invasion of privacy, but eventually, Lennie befriends him. Crooks described the difficulties of discrimination at the ranch, while Lennie tells him about the dream he, George, and Candy share. When Candy enters and speaks of his offer to make the dream a reality, Crooks wants to join them. Curley's wife, looking for company, enters the room. Crooks and Candy argue with her, but she gets up to Lennie. She leaves when George enters the room. George does not like the fact that Crooks is a part of their dream now. The next afternoon, all of the trouble George predicted begins to come true. Lennie had just broken his puppy’s neck by petting it too much. Soon, Curley’s wife enters his room, and after learning that Lennie likes touching soft things, she tells him to touch her hair. Curley’s wife thinks that Lennie is going to mess up her hair, so she tells him to let go. She yells, but Lennie does not let go. Lennie panics, accidentally breaking her neck, just like the puppy. After Lennie goes away, Candy finds the Curley’s wife’s body. He tells George that their dream will still be possible without Lennie. He asks Candy to give him a few minutes head start before telling the others. In that time, George steals Carlson's gun - the same one used to kill Candy's dog. George enters the barn with the others to discover the body and he attempts to convince the men that Lennie should only be put away because he meant no harm. But, Curley insists and they all go out to look for Lennie. The final passage happens at the same riverbank the book opened. Lennie had remembered to return there after he had gotten into trouble. He realizes the severity of his actions. Lennie asks George to "chew him out", but George does so only halfway. They discuss their dream one last time, and George shoots Lennie in the back of the head with Carlson's gun. Bibliography: Word Count: 811
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