Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
Exercise 1: The story is about two drifting outsiders, who in their romantic unrealistic determination of finding their own place in the world, come out as losers. With the desire of getting a ranch, and in their loneliness, George and his huge simple-minded friend Lennie travel from ranch to ranch in search of work. George is in his need of a companion drifting around with Lennie who is a huge guy, with the mind of a three-four old. Lennie always gets him self into serious trouble because he, being a huge strong guy, does not think of the consequences of…
