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* FaceOfTheBand: Austin, then Aaron after Austin's departure.
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* AngstAversion: The hardships George and Lennie go through can be a bit much for some readers as nothing ever goes right for them and almost all the people they meet are not very pleasant people.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: This is a pretty depressing book to read. Nothing ever goes right for either Lennie or George, most of the characters they meet are complete {{Jerkass}}es, and the story ends with George being forced to [[spoiler:kill Lennie to save him from meeting a worse fate at the hands of the law (or a lynch mob) after he accidentally kills a woman]].
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* ItWasHisSled: Lennie dies.
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* ItWasHisSled: Lennie dies.George {{Mercy Kill}}s Lennie.
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* FridgeHorror: If, somehow, they manage to stop the mob from lynching Lennie, it wouldn't be much of stretch to guess that the judicial system wouldn't be easy on him, either. To go a bit further, knowing how institutions were back then, what would have happened to Lennie if he didn't have George watching after him before that point?
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* FridgeHorror: If, somehow, they manage to stop the mob from lynching Lennie, it wouldn't be much of stretch to guess that the judicial system wouldn't be easy on him, either. To go a bit further, knowing [[BedlamHouse how institutions were back then, then]], what would have happened to Lennie if he didn't have George watching after him before that point?
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** Lennie, a mentally disabled man, is constantly yelled at, berated, scolded, and treated like a burden by everyone around him, including George. At one point, George pretends that Lennie is his cousin to explain to the ranch head hiring them why they're hanging out together but later says that if Lennie actually ''was'' his cousin, he'd shoot himself. These days, it's less acceptable to make fun of the disabled in any fashion or treat them like a liability, though back in the 30s, the mentally disabled had less personal rights and any mental disability that existed were either undiagnosed or poorly understood compared to the modern age. Asylums in the 1930s were also very inept and outright inhumane in their time; often relying on electroshock therapy, hydrotherapy, metrazol convulsions, insulin shock therapy, and beatings.
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** Lennie, a mentally disabled man, is constantly yelled at, berated, scolded, and treated like a burden by everyone around him, including George. At one point, George pretends that Lennie is his cousin to explain to the ranch head hiring them why they're hanging out together but later says that if Lennie actually ''was'' his cousin, he'd shoot himself. These days, it's less acceptable to make fun of the disabled in any fashion or treat them like a liability, though back in the 30s, the mentally disabled had less fewer personal rights and any mental disability disabilities that existed were either undiagnosed or poorly understood compared to the modern age. Asylums in the 1930s were also very inept and outright inhumane in their time; often relying on electroshock therapy, hydrotherapy, metrazol convulsions, insulin shock therapy, and beatings.
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** Slim mentions drowning four of the puppies one of his dogs gave birth to, justifying it by saying he couldn't take care of that many. This was an accepted practice at the time the book was written but has largely fallen out of favor thanks to the growth of animal shelters.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In the 1992 movie, Curley's wife is [[AdaptationalHeroism far more sympathetic than in the book]] -- specifically, the scene in which she arguably crosses the MoralEventHorizon by threatening to have Crooks lynched is omitted. The director wanted her depicted more as a "sad angel" rather than TheVamp she appeared to be in the novel.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In the 1992 movie, Curley's wife is [[AdaptationalHeroism [[AdaptationalSympathy far more sympathetic than in the book]] -- specifically, the scene in which she arguably crosses the MoralEventHorizon by threatening to have Crooks lynched is omitted. The director wanted her depicted more as a "sad angel" rather than TheVamp she appeared to be in the novel.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: This is a pretty depressing book to read. Nothing ever goes right for either Lennie or George, most of the characters they meet are complete {{Jerkass}}es, and the story ends with George being forced to [[spoiler:kill Lennie to save him from meeting a worse fate at the hands of the law after he accidentally kills a woman]].
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: This is a pretty depressing book to read. Nothing ever goes right for either Lennie or George, most of the characters they meet are complete {{Jerkass}}es, and the story ends with George being forced to [[spoiler:kill Lennie to save him from meeting a worse fate at the hands of the law (or a lynch mob) after he accidentally kills a woman]].
