Journal Entry- Lennie's Perspective

Dear Diary,

      I has no way of knowin' for sure but I think we are gonna be stuck here a'while at this farm. I hate it here. It aint the farm, I'm fine with buckin' barley, its just Curly, he gives me the creeps. He march in today, I never seen the man before and it's like he hates me and wants to fight me. He's so pugnacious it almost makes me wanna beg George to let us go home but I know I wont. George is so imperious what I think don't matter I jus' gotta shut up and work. I'm scared, but I'm not gonna let George know, I know we need the jack but what if Curly hits me? What am I gonna do? He's the bosses son they say, so I can't touch him, not that I wanna. George says no trouble or I can't tend the rabbits and how I wanna tend the rabbits and feel their fluffy fur. Kinda like a mouse but bigger and with nice long ears and fluffy puff ball tails.  George promised I could tend the rabbits I just have to be good and not get in trouble. I don't wanna get in no trouble I jus' do. I know George don't want me none sometimes and I try real hard to be good but he gets mad at me often enough and I know it would be better for him if I were up in those hills, in a cave somewhere.

      Today we was bucking barely, and them men must be pretty weak or I did good 'cause George looked proud. I like it when George is proud of me, maybe now he will forget I broke my promise by talking when we came to work here. I didn't mean no harm to anyone, it just slipped out. It's not jus' Curly that we was having problems with, we also met his wife today. She's real purty. She has these full, rosy lips and her hair rolled down her head real nice. I don't know why George got so mad at me I was only looking, I wasn't gonna do nothing. I wish he knew how I felt, that I really didn't mean to make him mad.

     I got a puppy today! A real live puppy! George asked Slim, a man in our room if he could have one of the new pups that Slim had just had. He's brown and white and so little. He smelled of the fresh outdoors and squirmed a little in my careful grasp. If it were up to me I would sleep in the barn with them pups they was so cute. But it's not... I tried to to sneak the brown and white one in to sleep with, hid him under my shirt I did. But when I was recumbent on the bed I shifted so George wouldn't see the pup. He did anyway. He always does. I morosely handed the tiny pup over to George. I didn't do nothin' wrong I wasn't gonna hurt it but he took the pup anyways and told me to put him back. So far I like the pup but I'm still a little scared and nervous of the farm. I'm not real sure but I do know that George will protect me and I him. That's all I've got for now.