Resumo de Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men is a short novel written by John Steinbeck. This
famous story tells the story of two friends, Lennie and George, as they
live the life of travelling farmhands. Lennie has some sort of
mental disability, and George takes care of him, and has for
years. Lennie could not survive on his own without George.

The story starts as the pair is making their way to another farm to
begin another job. They lose jobs fairly quickly, mostly because
of Lennie. Lennie is carrying a dead mouse as a pet, as he has an
obsession with soft pretty things, but George makes him get rid of it,
fearing disease.

They sit during the night and talk of their dreams - owning a house and
a farm and living there, raising rabbits, never working for someone
else again and never having to move again. Lennie gets so excited
every time that George tells of this dream of theirs. The next
morning the two men report to the nearby farm to start work. They
meet many various farmhands and people.

They meet an old farmhand named Candy, who has an old, good for nothing
dog. Everyone keeps bugging Candy that he needs to just shoot the
dog and put it out of his, and everyone elses, misery. Candy
finally agrees, sadly, and the dog is quickly and easily shot by one of
the farmhands.

The boss of the farm has a son named Curly, who is newly married to a
beautiful, but flirtatious, wife. She is always flirting with the
hands, and Curly is always getting angry and jealous, hunting her down
all over the farm. When he cannot find her, he decides to pick a
fight with Lennie, as he knows Lennie is not very bright.
However, Lennie is very strong, and ends up crushing Curly's hand.

Lennie's friends go to the brothel, and he is left with Crooks, the
black stable hand, and Candy. Curly's wife comes over and talks
with them, and becomes fascinated with Lennie. She comes back to
see him in the barn the next day, and Lennie tells her that he
accidently killed one of the new puppies. She consoles him by
letting him pet her hair. Lennie accidently pulls too hard, and
she screams. In an effort to quiet her, he accidently breaks her
neck, killing her.

He flees into the fields away from the farm, to the place where George
had told him to go if anything went wrong. When the men discover
the body of Curly's wife, they form a party to go find and kill
Lennie. George finds Lennie first, as he knows where he is, and
George knows what he has to do.

George begins telling Lennie the story of their dream again, the farm
with the rabbits, and as he tells the story, he shoots Lennie in the
back of the head.

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