![]() But Lennie does possess a simple soul and a heart of gold, which alone makes this tale all the more tragic. He is, for lack of another word, mentally retarded. George is a small framed man, lean and dwarfed in comparison to his companion Lennie, the tall large strong man, but what Lennie has in strength and size he lacks in smarts. The story focuses mainly on George Milton and Lennie Small, but as you read you'll notice that a few supporting characters play a big role in the heartbreak that this novel conveys. Steinbeck's accounting of sheer loneliness and desperation is so brilliantly captured that the reader is brought to tears (for me in a literal sense) to realize that this is all these people had to live for, a pipe dream that refused to die. It took me a measly three hours to read John Steinbeck's classic tragedy `Of Mice and Men', a novel that, while written in 1937, still holds so true today. ![]() Tale of depression, loneliness and pure desperation, a tragedy that rings true even today. ![]()
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