OMAM Similarities and Differences In Of Mice and Men I noticed multiple similarities between the book and the movie. One big similarity between the two was Lennie had a speech impediment. Lennie slurred a lot of his words. Another big similarity was that George and Lennie had the same dream. Their dream was to get a little place and have chickens, cows, and rabbits. The last similarity I noticed was Curley and Lennie got into a fist fight. Curley wanted to fight a big guy, and Lennie ended up crushing his hand to pieces. The book and the movie had fewer differences than similarities. In the movie George didn’t tell Lennie not to talk when they went to get a job but in the book he did. In the movie Curley’s wife made the statement she was