Well, there are many themes in 'Of Mice and Men' but I thought the fraternity of brotherhood was the most essential. Now, the fraternity of brotherhood could be broken down into the unite to to work, the unite to kill Candy's dog but if you look truly they united to kill one of their own.
After finding Curly's wife dead, they concluded that the killer was Lennie. They discovered the murderer to be Lennie because he was the last one who saw her and he was the only one out of the 'brotherhood' who didn't come to the rescue. All of the men, included George set out to find Lennie. Lennie had something else up his sleeve though and George was the only one who knew what it was. Lennie was running to the spot near the river where George always told him to meet in case something happened. So off Lennie went and off George followed slightly after and together they finally met. The other men where off on horses with their long rifles. Together they searched but they didn't know about the meeting place. George was the only one who knew.
To protect his 'brotherhood', George had to kill one of his best friends. Some may think that he was keeping the brotherhood by helping Lennie die with one shot instead of being brutally beaten and shot by the other men. The movie ends with the 'brothers' being together again, without their fallen angel Lennie.
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