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Both migrant workers who longed a dream of owning their own ranch, not having to be under anyone's orders, but the novel has cyclic pattern where nothing is going to change, and George realises this; that he will spend his time on the ranch with the others, drinking and visiting the brothel, so he shoots Lennie because he knows he can't look after him anymore because Lennie just got them in trouble, and Lennie would have been better off.

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