Wednesday Thought: Outsiders Trying to Understand Their Unique Place in the World

Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry.

Drawn from: Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck