Book Review: Of Mice And Men. By: John Stinebeck

           Two migrant workers George and Lennie are travailing to their next job when they stop for a drink at a pool. There we are introduced to George an intelligent small man and Lennie a large strong and very unintelligent man. The unlikely pair of friends decide to camp the night by the pool and go to their job in the morning. In the morning when they arrive they are too late to go out in the fields so they have the morning off, while wandering around the ranch they meet the old swamper Candy. While they are waiting in the bunkhouse Curly the bosses son's flirtatious wife comes by Lennie thinks she is "purdy" but George seeing the obvious problems that will come from being around her warns Lennie to stay away. Then the other workers return and they meet slim, the leader of the farm workers who is revered as a almost god like character. Slim's dog has just had puppies and he agrees to give one to Lennie, he also agrees to give one to Candy If he will let Carlson shoot his old smelly dog. The next day Lennie is in the barn playing with his puppy, he breaks its neck while rough housing with it. After Lennie hides the body Curly's wife comes in and suggests that if Lennie likes petting soft things he should pet her hair. When he pets her hair she pulls away and he breaks her neck. He tries to hide her body and then runs to the place in the river where George told him to hide if any thing went wrong. Then George comes along and sees him he sits down and tells Lennie about the farm there going to have, and shoots him in the back of the head. I did not like the book as I found the end very depressing and overall the theme of the book depressing. it was what seemed a drastic way to end the book but at the same time it made sense because Lennie had just killed some one and was probably going to be hurt severely by Curly. Over all I would not recommend the book.