“Of Mice and Men” and “Jane Eyre”

  In “Of Mice and Men” the two are George and Lennie, and the females in “Jane Eyre” are Helen and obviously Jane. Also both friendships end with a death of one of the two friends.

  Looking more closely at the friendship between George and Lennie, the relationship of these two friends predates the action of the book. The first scene in the book opens with George and Lennie by the “Salinas River” they seem to have been together many years before we meet them “Him and me was both born in Auburn I knowed his aunt Clara. She took him he when he was a baby.” Whereas Jane and Helen just meet for the first time in school and befriend one another. The friendship between Helen and Jane only occurs in the early chapters of the novel and is only a small part in the book, however in “Of Mice and Men” the whole book is basically all about George and Lennie.