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George Milton and Lennie Small travel 

together finding jobs at the farms around 

California, Salinas valley. George and 

Lennie are unusual because they stick 

together while most migrants are loners 

they are also unusual because they are so 

different from each other George is small 

and shrewd while Lennie is large and has a 

mental disability.

George takes care of Lennie and they have 

this dream of getting their own farm. 

George and Lennie arrive at a small 

pound. They have been traveling all day 

on their way to a farm were they are going 

to work. George notices that Lennie is 

holding something he makes him handed 

out. Is a dead mouse that Lennie was 

petting in his pocket while he walked. 

George throws it. Lennie remembers a 

women who used to give him mice but 

stop because he keept killing them on 

accident. the women was his aunt Clara.

George complains that his life would 

be so much easier if he didn't have to 

take care of Lennie. He would not 

have to worry about Lennie getting 

into trouble like he did in the last 

farm. Lennie saw a girl in a red dress 

and he liked the look on her dress so 

much that he wanted to toch it. When 

Lennie toched the dress the girl 

screamed Lennie panicked and 

graved hold of the dress. The girl 

later claimed she was raped.

Lennie wants george to tell him again how 

they are different from other guys. george 

says that most guys that work on ranches 

are lonely, they have no family nothing to 

look forward to and don't belong any where 

but he and Lennie are different and one day 

they are going to get their own place. they 

will have a little house where they can raise 

cows and chickens and have a vegetable 

patch. George then tells Lennie to go to the 

pond and hide in the brush if he ever gets 

into any trouble in the new ranch.   

The next morning george and lenny arrive 

at the farm where they're supposed to 

work bucking barley, they meet the boss. 

After the boss leaves an old man named 

candy shows up with his old sheepdog 

while he's talking to george Curley comes 

in looking for the boss who's his father. 

Curley notices George and lenny he asks 

them a bunch of questions and generally 

acts like a jerk.after curly leaves candy 

explains that curley is a pretty good boxer 

and he hates big guys like lenny because 

he's not big himself. 

Later after working all day george 

comes into the bunk house with slim 

one of the most respected guys on 

the ranch. George thanks Lennie for 

giving Lennie one of the puppies 

from his dog. Later George explains 

that he and Lennie were both born in 

Auburn that he knew Lenny's aunt 

Clara and that when she died Lennie 

whent out working with george and 

eventually just got used to each 

other. 

Candy comes back into the bunk house 

with his old dog and another worker 

named Carlson follows them in short after. 

Carlson starts talking about how bad 

Candy's dog smells and how it’s old and 

suffering he could shoot the dog in the 

back of the head and the dog wouldn't 

even feel it. Candy protests but the general 

opinion in the bunk house says they should 

put the dog down.

A young labor named Whit comes in. 

There's some strange silence and 

awkward conversations while everyone 

tries not to talk about candy's dog 

candy just lies in bed rigidly staring at 

the ceiling until finally they hear the 

shoot fired outside. Carlson comes back 

in and Lennie comes in too. Carlson sits 

in his bunk and doesn't say anything 

about candy's dog   he just starts 

cleaning his gun. 

Later Lennie asks George to tell him again about the 

place. George starts describing it he says they'll have 

ten acres with their own house a windmill a little 

shack a chicken run and orchard   it'll be there place 

where they belong. They won't have to travel around 

anymore or plant crops for someone else. Lennie says 

they'll also have rabbits he can take care of. Candy 

asks if George really knows of such a place and how 

much it would cost. Candy explains that he's not of 

much use to anyone since he has only one hand it's 

only a matter of time before they get rid of him. He 

has money saved up and George can put it to the farm 

if he can get in on the place with George and Lennie. 

With Candy’s money they could actually buy the place 

so they plan to save money for a month then to collect 

their pay and leave. 

The next night Lennie wonders over to the 

room of the stable buck; crooks none of the 

other ranch workers ever go in to crook’s 

room because he's black. Candy comes 

looking for Lennie. The three of them end up 

sitting and talking together. Curly's wife 

comes to the doorway looking for Curly. 

Candy tells her to leave because they don't 

want trouble Curly's wife gets angry and 

says she likes to talk to people. Crooks tells 

her to get out of his room but she tells 

him to shut up. 

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