Clearly, George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men demonstrates mutualism. For example, Lennie benefits from from his relationship with George. George tells slim “So we sat in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day”, because was trying to explain how he had got lennie out of a situation that could've got him lynched(Steinbeck 42). The reason why they had to hide in an irrigation ditch was because of Lennie touching something that he liked which happens to be a girl's dress that he wouldn’t let go of because he was scared. Because he didn’t let go at first this caused George to help lennie get out of there and stay out of site. George tries to help Lennie stay out of trouble. Its that way because of the relationship they have been