True Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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“True friendship multiplies the good in life, and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... To find one real friend in a lifetime, to keep them is a fortune.”-Baltasar Gracian. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men the importance of friendship plays a key role throughout the book. The main protagonists, Lennie and George have a mutual bond that keeps them together, no matter what happens to them.
Lennie has made many decisions over the course of the book that have had a negative impact on George, yet George continued to keep Lennie at his side. “God, you’re a lot of trouble” said George. “I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn't have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.”(George 7). Lennie is a liability for George, and having to parent him all the time has led to George’s life to be harder than intended. Without the need to keep Lennie out of trouble, George would have a much easier life to live. “We gotta tell the guys. They got to bring him in, I guess, There ain’t no way out. Maybe they won’t hurt ‘im.” He said sharply “I ain’t gonna let let ‘em hurt Lennie.”(George 95). When George and Candy stumble upon Curley’s wife, they know right away that it was Lennie’s
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The other farmhands are just there with no real family, just living in isolation. “I was talkin’ about myself. A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readen’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somthin’, he don’t know know whether itś right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too.”(Crooks 73). Crooks openly admits to Lennie that he get very lonely on the ranch and how he wishes to have someone that he can talk to or someone that can answer a random question that he