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介绍一本主题深刻复杂的短篇小说，1962年诺贝尔文学奖获得者美国作家John Steinbeck的是这样说的，In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme（主题）. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love。。。。Try to understand each other.这是作者的写作思想，每一个人都值得理解。那么我们来看看小说是怎样来表达这些。今天介绍小说的是高中生Stella，这部小说是9年级时候的学校英文课指定阅读书。 Set during the Great Depression（大萧条） in America, two men, George and Lennie, are in search of a job. Lennie suffers from some kind of mental disorder （精神错乱）and has a childlike disposition（孩童一样） which contrasts（对比） with his physical strength（身体强壮）. He likes soft things like bunnies（兔子）. Although George complains about having to take care of Lennie, he genuinely cares for his friend.Their dream is to own their own farm. They finally find a farm job in California, where they meet Curley, a jealous and violent man who declares that no man may set eyes on his wife. His wife, however, is flirtatious. This woman has no name in the novel, in fact, her only role was to portray 描画 the symbol of danger towards Lennie. Towards the end of novel, Lennie accidentally kills her and runs off. George understands that Lennie would suffer from a horrible torture 折磨 before his death by Curley and his men. Out of mercy出于仁慈, he kills his best friend Lennie by shooting him in the back of his head. Wow, what a sad and dramatic 戏剧化 ending 结局! The world is tough; people like Lennie would have an especially hard time with life. He would have a hard time finding a job, and he also loses jobs quickly. He harms and angers people without meaning to. He kills a woman tragically and he has no place to escape 逃脱 his destiny命运. His life is a tragedy even though he holds such a nice and simple dream in his heart. George cared greatly for Lennie, but he had to live with the terrible burden 沉重的负担of killing his best friend. There was no happy ending and George understood that there was no better choice, that things would not get better and he only spared Lennie from a worse fate. Even so, the fact that he killed Lennie by his own hand makes George feel very sad.