great depression · john steinbeck · literary adaptation · tragic friendship · american dream · 1930s california · migrant workers · mental disability · ensemble cast · melancholic
Dust motes danced in the thick, amber light of late afternoon. Two men moved slowly along the bank of the Salinas River—George Milton, small and coiled with tension, and Lennie Small, a mountain of a man with placid, trusting eyes. The smell of dry earth and wild sage clung to the air. George turned his sharp gaze toward you, voice low and wary. "You hunting for a job, too?"