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George also reminds Lennie why they lost their last job: something about a girl with a soft, red dress that Lennie liked to pet (the dress, that is, although technically, yes, the girl was in the dress at the time).

This "petting" is a major problem for Lennie. Lennie likes to pet things a little too hard and a little too long—an activity that keeps resulting in dead rabbits.

Lennie and George have an argument over a mouse that Lennie has petted a little too hard and long. Lennie wants to keep the dead mouse in his pocket, but George throws it away.

Then they argue about other stuff: Lennie wants ketchup with his supper of beans; George says there isn't any. Lennie threatens to go live by himself in a cave; George says what a great life he could have if Lennie did go off and live in a cave.

Aw, and now Lennie's feelings are hurt.

George makes it up to Lennie by telling him his favorite story, the one where they have their own ranch and Lennie gets to tend (and pet!) rabbits. As long and as hard as he wants.

That … sounds kind of horrific for the rabbits, actually.

George also reminds Lennie to come back to this spot by the river if anything bad happens, which suggests, of course, that something bad most definitely will.

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It's a hot afternoon near Soledad, California, sometime during the 1930s. Everyone (or nearly everyone) is poor and scrambling around desperately for work, food, and money.

We meet Lennie Small and George Milton: two guys who are among the poor and the scrambling.

These two are dressed nearly identically, but there the similarities end. George is small and smart, Lennie is huge and mentally slow. We can tell from his dialogue and actions that he's got some major problems.

Lennie drops to his knees and drinks from a pool of dirty water, slurping out of it like a horse. George verbally swats him.

This is the dynamic of their relationship in a nutshell: Lennie acts like a kid, and George admonishes him like a parent. Make that a parent who swears a lot.

George reminds Lennie (and us) about where they are going and why: a ranch where they can buck barley for 50 dollars a month.

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if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the brush." "Hide in the brush," said Lennie slowly. "Hide in the brush till I come for you. Can you remember that?" "Sure I can, George. Hide in the brush till you come." "But you ain't gonna get in no trouble, because if you do, I won't let you tend the rabbits."

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"we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof- Nuts!"

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O.K. Someday- we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and-" "An' live off the fatta the lan'," Lennie shouted. "An' have rabbits. -Tom G

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"because you got me to look after you and you look after me"

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"with us it ain't like that. we got a future. we got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. we don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. if the other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. but not us"

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"they aint got nothing to look at"

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"I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ, somebody'd shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself. No, you stay with me. Your Aunt Clara wouldn't like you running off by yourself, even if she is dead."

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"Guys like us, that work
on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no fambly.
They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake
and then they go into town and blow their stake, and the first thing
you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't
got nothing to look ahead to." - Tom G

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jesus christ someone would mistake you for a kiodi if you were by your self

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First chance I get I'll give you a pup. Maybe you wouldn't kill it.

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“No—look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me.

Trouble with mice is you always kill ‘em.”

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"i could go up in the hills I could go and find a cave"

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"i could go up in the hills I could go and find a cave

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Lennie likes ketchup

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Weed

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"God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get

a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month

come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.

Why, I could stay in a cat house all night. I could eat any place I want, hotel or

any place, and order any damn thing I could think of. An’ I could do all that

every damn month. Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play cards

or shoot pool.”

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"I got you! you cant keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get. jus' keep me shovin' all over the country all do bad things and I got to get you out." his voice rose nearly to a shout. "you crazy son-of-a-bitch. you keep me keep me in hot water all the time"

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Lennie reluctantly reached into his pocket. His voice broke a little. “I don’t

know why I can’t keep it. It ain’t nobody’s mouse. I didn’t steal it. I found it

lyin’ right beside the road.”

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"I don't why I cant keep it. it ain' t nobody's  mouse, I didn't steal it. I found it lyin' right beside the road"

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Lennie said, "I like beans with ketchup." "Well, we ain't got no ketchup. You go get wood. An' don't you fool around. It'll be dark before long."

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"if I didn't have you on my tail. I

could live so easy and maybe have a girl."

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"god your a lot of trouble"

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"god your a lot of trouble"

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"if I didn't have you on my tail I could live so easily might even have a girlfriend"

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Lennie has a disability

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"if he finds out what a crazy bastard you are"

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"we are going to work on a ranch like we came from up north"

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“Well, you ain’t petting no mice while you walk with me. You remember

where we’re goin’ now?”

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They were sent out of weed because Lennie Tugged at a girls dress then chocked her because he likes soft things and he freaked out.

-Tom G

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Lennie doesent know how strong he is

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“You never had none, you crazy bastard. I got both of ‘em here. Think I’d let

you carry your own work card?”

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"Its only a mouse,george"

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think id let you carry your on work card\

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The bus driver let them off far away from the farm.

He had said that it wasn't very far away although it was further than George and lennie thaught

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"Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly."

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“Lennie!” he said sharply. “Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink so much.”

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a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. his arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely

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Lennie tugged on a girls soft dress then freaked out and chocked her

and Lennie isnt very smart

-Tom G

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Lennie choked a girl

he likes to touch silky stuff

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both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders. the first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features every part of him was defined small strong hands

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denim trousers and in denim coats

with brass buttons.

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They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other. -Tom G

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Lennie stronger than he thinks he is

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Running from a place called 'weed' and finding more work

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Farm ranch

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Lennie

a not smart but very strong man

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soledad salinas river

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Goerge