Of Mice and Men

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Have you read this book or seen the movie? This is another Steinbeck classic. This one is very sad and I like the movie, but it is a tearjerker. Chances are, you will fall in love with Lennie. I don't want to spoil the ending though. There are a couple different versions of the film, the one I watched was the 1992 film, starring John Malkovich (Lennie) and Gary Sinise (George), directed by Gary Sinise. This is the basic plot of the movie: Lennie is a large, physically strong man with the mind of a child, and George is a smaller man with quick wit. The men are wandering ranch workers who travel together in search of any available opportunities to earn money. Lennie depends on George as does George on Lennie for all different times in their travels. The ideal objective of most ranch workers is to amass a sizeable fortune and eventually purchase a small farm, and "live offa the fatta the lan'." Lennie is driven to reach this objective by the prospect of "tending the rabbits". However, this goal appears to be nothing more than a distant dream until Candy, another worker on the farm, offers to contribute his savings for a place on the future farm. This is about the book: Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The story is set on a ranch a few miles from Soledad in the Salinas Valley.