Analyzing Friendship: A Perspective from 'Of Mice and Men'

Friendship in “Of Mice and Men”

Friendship nowadays is not as it used to be, it used to be going to the movies with a couple friends or riding bikes down the street. Nowadays it’s almost like a competition of who has more Facebook friends or more Instagram followers. Today Friendship is different than it was during the time the characters George and Lennie in the novel "Of Mice and Men"

In the short story “Friendship in the Age of Economics” the author, Todd May, talked about how important your relationship with your friends can be. In this story, it says “There is much that might be said about friendship” (May 2). It also said, "In our lives, however, few of us have entirely forgotten about the third- true friendship"(May 2). Not everyone

While we draw pleasure from them, they are not a matter solely of consuming pleasure."(May 1) Your friends can help carry you to greater lengths and accomplishments than you have ever seen before, as you can do for your friends in return.

In "Of Mice and Men " they show true friendship, and true friendship isn't always perfect, in the book "Of Mice and Men' Lennie and George have an argument of whether or not Lennie had picked up a dead mouse. Even small arguments like this don’t affect a true friendship. George said "Good boy! That's fine, Lennie! When we get a couple acres I can let you tend to the rabbits all right." When you can have these kinds of conversations with your friends you can tell that they will stay with you for a long time after.

The article "Friendship in an Age Economics" the author says "We might say of friendships that they are a matter not of diversion or of return but of meaning." He also said "They render us vulnerable, and in doing so add dimensions of significance to our lives that can only arise from being, in each case, friends with this or that particular individual, a party to this or that particular life" This proves that friendship is a major and important part in an individual's