Throughout the novel it is evident that Lennie and George share a deep and faithful relation with one another. For example, Although George acts as Lennie’s caretaker, they both have a sense of trust, companionship, togetherness which no other characters seem to have in the farm. This is evident where Lennie says “Guys like us, which work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. . . . With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.” The special bond which Lennie and George share are often looked upon with jealousy and envy by various members of the farm most notably Crooks, the stable hand. Crooks often attempts to downplay and take advantage of Lennie’s mental disability because he resents the relationship George and Lennie share together.This is evident when Crooks attempts to brainwash Lennie with negative thoughts about George “S’pose he took a powder and just ain’t coming back. What’ll you do then?... I said s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more.” The loneliness and internal unhappiness Crooks suffers as a result of the self predatory human natures forces him to treat others the way he has been treated in life. (insert secondary source).
