1. Of Mice And Men Of Mice And Men is mainly about two men named George and Lennie who travel together looking for jobs and take care of each other like if they were brothers. This story mainly teaches you about about friendship, loneliness and trust. It also gives you an idea of how life on the ranch use to be back then.

2. George George is one of the main characters in the story Of Mice and Men. He is the one that takes care of Lennie after his mom and aunt died because that’s he had left to take care of him. George is small, quick and smart. He is also unselfish and caring because he is always giving Lennie the bigger part of his pie or all the ketchup. He also cares about him because he doesn’t let no one talk bad about him and he knows how and when to stay out of trouble.

3. Lennie Lennie is a very big guy with no shape in his face. He is also mentally ill that is why George takes care of him so much. Lennie is always traveling with George. He never leaves anywhere without him except if it’s somewhere unimportant. Lennie is a very strong guy that does not know how to use his strength. He loves petting soft things like mice and rabbits but he is always killing them because he pets them too hard.

4. Candy Candy is an old black man that works at the ranch were George and Lennie start to work at after they get kicked out of Weed. He is also one of the only two black men at the ranch. He is also one of the janitors there too. Nobody really talks to him because he is black and also because of that he doesn’t get to participate in everything the men at the ranch do.

5. Slim Slim is another character that lives at the ranch that Lennie and George go to work at. Slim is one of the guys at the ranch that George trusts other than Lennie and Candy. Slim is like the cool guy in the book. He is also tall like Lennie. He has dark damped hair and is always wearing a denim jacket with blue jeans. He is also the skinner at the ranch.

6. Curley’s Wife Curley’s wife is the only woman in the book that we really get to know in the book. She is always feeling lonely and frustrated because no one talks to her. They don’t talk to her because of Curley. She is always giving the eye to all the guys at the ranch. She is also always pretending to look for Curley because she wants someone to talk to.

7. Curley Curley is the son’s boss. He is also short and a professional boxer. He is the only one that has a wife in the book. He is also always trying to start problems with guys that are bigger than him. He wears a black glove on his right hand full of vaseline to keep it soft for his wife. Curley gets in a fight with Lennie and Lennie breaks his hand but whenever anyone asks what happen he says he got his hand caught in a machine.

8. Boss The boss is a short chubby man that wears spurs on his boots to show that he is the top dog and that he doesn’t have to do nothing. He is strict and doesn’t tolerate very much. He gets on Lennie because George didn’t let him talk when he was interrogating them. From then on you don’t hear about him.

9. Stable Buck Stable buck is another one of the only black guys in the story. He is a janitor too. He is good at playing horse shoes and he has a crooked back. He lives inside the barn where it smells like horse poo and where all the horses are. He also feels lonely because nobody talks to him because he is black. Nobody goes in his room except for Slim and later he becomes friends with Lennie.

10. The End The End of the story is very is very sad because George kills Lennie. He kills him because Lennie killed Curley’s wife by putting his hands over her nose and mouth so she wouldn’t scream. Curley’s wife was screaming because Lennie didn’t want to let go of her hair. When everybody found out that he had killed her they went on a lynch mob to kill Lennie. George didn’t want that and he had told Lennie if he ever did something wrong to go hide in the brush were they had slept at the night before they went to go get the job. So George went to him before they found him. When he found him he told him their dream story and told him to turn around and then shot him in the back of the head.