Describe The Relationship Between George And Lennie's Life

1) George and Lennie presumably have traveled with each other a long time. Consequently, George has to live with Lennie and the of what he does and says, and at times George can crack and become highly upset with Lennie. Just imagine living with someone extremely annoying and only them for an extended period of time. One could infer that the two have been together a long time. Under normal circumstances, people do not become fed up and enraged and uptight over someone asking for some ketchup.
2) In this time period, many people relocated to work due to employment agencies sending workers to work at one farm, then they would have been paid and move to do another job. But, George has Lennie to look after because he causes problems. For example, Lennie broke Curley’s hand, killed Curley’s wife and touched the girl in the town of Weed. The common intention for all these workers was to do their job and collect their pay afterwards, but when you have a accomplice who gets fired, they do not complete their work, causing them to earn no money. In all, Lennie can cause a plethora of problems that make it undesirable to work with Lennie.
3) It was typical for some single workers of this time period to work their job, then afterward go to town and spend all of it on things that they
could think of, then return to work another job when the money ran out. Some examples of things they could possibly spend money on have been prostitutes (cat houses), any food they wanted from a restaurant, alcohol, and gambling. Some would repeat this cycle endlessly, often saving no money in the process.
4) A pool room or hall is a social hall where people drink alcohol, gamble, socialize, along with playing pool- a game where you knock balls into the six holes around the edge of the playing surface. The act of shooting pool refers to players use the cue to ‘shoot’ balls into the pockets lining the perimeter of the table.
5) During the 30’s and 40’s in the United States, the “Dust Bowl” affected several southern farming states. The Dust Bowl marked a period in which drought and the effects of over-farming negatively affected farms. The over-farming caused the land to be infertile, yielding to reduced crop harvests, cutting the need for many who would have worked on a farm. So, hundreds of thousands of people migrated west to look for work. George and Lennie most likely moved from an area affected by the Dust Bowl, leaving their family in the process, causing the two to be stuck with each other.
6)The poem “To a Mouse On Turning up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785” illustrates George and Lennie perfectly.
In the poem, the farmer destroys a mouse's nest and becomes deeply upset while the mouse just moves on and forgets. When compared to George and Lennie, it is clear that George is best represented by the farmer and Lennie is best represented by the mouse. George clearly remembers when accidents happen, such as Lennie’s mistakes. Lennie’s mistakes always escapes his memory. He always kills the mice by accident while petting them, even though he has killed many. Mistakes Lennie has made have led to them getting fired, yet he does not remember them, while George sees them
clearly. 7) What George is referring to is the fact that Lennie touched a girl in Weed. People in the town were going to lynch Lennie for touching her, forcing the duo to flee that area without finishing their job without pay. Along with this, Lennie is incapable of making many decisions, especially while in a tough situation like the one mentioned. As a result, George has to be in control of Lennie and maneuver him through everything including evading death.
When the boss came in to talk to George and Lennie for the first time, George talked to him because Lennie did not know what to say. This can cause poor first impressions, which leave an impact on their relationship with their boss. These are just a few reasons why people may not want to be around or work with Lennie.
Slang
These workers used slang profusely for several reasons. One reason for the use of slang was that the workers had little or no education. They did not go to school- kids in this time period were just there to help out, so they do not have time to waste not helping or making money. Moreover, slang is just their native tongue of speech that many had in the west. Slang was used by Steinbeck to illustrate that the farm workers, George and Lennie for example, were just simple, western, farm workers.