Of Mice and Men is the story of George, the main protagonist, who is small in stature along with his friend Lennie Small whom George looks after as a favor to Lennie’s aunt. Lennie, a man very large in stature and simple minded, likes to pet soft things. This is why they are searching for work at the start of the story. George and Lennie are farmhands by trade who constantly have to look …showed first 75 words of 981 total…

…showed last 75 words of 981 total…one day own land together. At the end George laments on his lost dream saying, “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would” (103). Steinback demonstrates that sometimes one has to sacrifice their dreams in order to survive which isn’t necessarily easy to do in the land of dreams, America.