Of Mice and Men always gets me depressed. I mean, between Carlson shooting Candy's dog, Candy, Crooks, and George being within a few weeks of being able to buy their farm, finding out Curley's wife gave up her dream to become property of an ******* and dying because of it, and George shooting Lennie while Lennie hears about how he's going to get to tend the rabbits it's like Salinger just kept going "well, you think that's depressing? How's this make you feel?" and tried to one-up earlier events.