George and Lennie are two drifting ranch hands who have never been able to work up a stake because Lennie keeps getting them into trouble. George feels that Lennie has been given into his keeping. He controls him by talking about the rabbit farm they will have one day, where Lennie may look after the rabbits if he is good. They come to work in the Salinas Valley and it is there, among the prople they meet at the ranch, that their story is worked out.
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