I can't remember when an author used so few words to make me think about so much. Steinbeck was a master at his craft. Of Mice and Men makes you look at our desire to belong. Everyone's desire to reach out and touch something and be needed and belong to something that is their. And poor, poor, simple Lennie he just acted on that desire to "touch" and hold on to things more than people could "live" with.

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