2006-06-25 12:40:25 · 6 answers · asked by emo_rox12 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
It's about two migrant workers during the depression. One of them is smart, the other is a little slow. Where ever they go, the slow one (Lenny) innocently gets them into trouble. The smart one (George) just can't seem to let this guy go because he knowshe won't survive without him.
They go to work on a farm where the farmer has an attractive daughter. The daughter is a bit of a flirt. She ends up flirting with Lenny because she thinks its funny. Lenny, not knowing what he is doing, accidentally kills the farmer's daughter and this sends the two men on the run.
The ending is one of my all-time favorites. The BOOK is my favorite, hands down. The 1939 version starring Burgess Meredith is great but the 1992 version starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich is also fantastic.
2006-06-25 12:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by contrafilms 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lennie is a large, strong man with the mind of a child, and George is a smaller man with quick wit who cares for Lennie. Lennie's love of touching soft things results in an accusation of rape by a woman whose dress he felt in the town of Weed. A mob from the town vows to lynch Lennie, which forces George and Lennie to leave their current town and find new work at a ranch near Soledad, California. George and Lennie hope to escape the repetitive, wandering fate of most ranch workers by saving up enough money to buy a small farm of their own, and "live offa the fatta the lan'." Lennie is driven to this goal by the prospect of "tending the rabbits". However, this goal is only a dream until Candy, another worker on the farm, offers to contribute his savings for a place on the farm.
While subjected to the loneliness and mediocrity of the life they presently lead, George and Lennie's prospect of their own farm attracts yet another hopeful, Crooks, the "*****" stable buck. Despite their best efforts, however, the dream begins to collapse, completely falling apart when Lennie accidentally kills the wife of Curley, a worker and son of the ranch boss. After killing Curley's wife, Lennie escapes to the river where the story had begun, the place where George told him to go should he ever get into trouble (Note the circular ending: it suggests that the workers are trapped in the cycle for ever).
To spare Lennie from Curley's revenge, which would entail much pain on Lennie's part, George quickly kills Lennie with a Luger pistol, stolen from Carlson. He does this by coaxing Lennie with a description of the dream, and shoots him in the back of the head. Slim and George then go for a drink to settle George's nerves. The last line of the book is Carlson, the ranch worker who kills Candy's old dog in a fashion similar to Lennie's killing (which foreshadows his death) is talking to Curley saying, "Now what the hell do you suppose is eatin' them two guys?" showing that both characters never learned the value of compassion and friendship.
2006-06-25 19:44:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book Of Mice and Men-two lowly drifters during the Great depression, their friendship, their flaws, their dreams, and the shattering of their dreams.
2006-06-25 19:45:26 · answer #3 · answered by Michael R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book by John Steinbeck
2006-06-25 19:44:15 · answer #4 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was about Lenny and George best friends ...go to cliffnotes
2006-06-25 20:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by ronnie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About a big retarded guy that kills a lady accidentally.
2006-06-25 19:44:41 · answer #6 · answered by Scott R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋