George angrily throws it away, fearing that Lennie might catch a disease from the dead animal. He sees that while Lennie is carrying and stroking a dead mouse. He loves petting soft things but accidentally kills them. George knows that Lennie doesn’t have a gentle touch. However, he is deeply devoted to George and depends upon him for protection and guidance. As the story progresses, we learn that Lennie has mild mental impediment/autism. Feeling thirsty, George and Lennie stop in a clearing by a pool and camp for the night. Lennie Small, his coworker, and friend is his opposite, with a giant personality and a “shapeless” face. George Million is an intelligent, small, dark man with sharp, robust features. They are let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are about to start working. George and Lennie are two migrants, working on a plantation in California when the Great Depression struck the United States.
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