In the bittersweet novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, two men known as George and Lennie, try to make a living, and eventually hope to conquer a dream by working on a ranch. George is a small, quick-witted man, while on the other hand, Lennie is huge and rather dumb, quite an unlikely pair, but the best of friends. As the story unfolds you see how Lennie is often compared to an animal of some sort. How Lennie is treated is also compared to an animal, and in the end, this also means his death.

There are many instances in the book when Lennie is compared to an animal, one of them is while George and Lennie had just run away from Weed, and are camping out in the forest. "His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank form the surface...