How Steinbeck Presents the Relationship in ‘of Mice and Men’

The book was set in calcium in the 1930s when America had a great depression which affected everyone because everyone was unemployed and had to belong to look for take form so it is showing George and Lennie traveling to fetchher to achive their dream, like everyone else in America, which is very unrealistic which is why they travel together. In the book there is a theme of loneliness. George and Lennie plan to buy a farm for moreover them two to live on so they wont return to worry about being lonely. Well, well have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.And when it rains in the winter, well just distinguish the hell with goin to work, and well build up a fire in the stove and set around it an harken to the rain comin down on the roof.. There dream is giving them something to work for so they faecal matter stymie about being lonely and have a great life. The writer presents George and Lennies relationship as mean but George gets really protective of Lennie. Hide in the brush till I come for you. take int let nobody see you. This shows that George does not extremity Lennie to get caught if he does something bad.But if he does get caught he penurys him to be safe and so they can stay together. This is also giving the reader a little wind that he might get in tump over later on in the story. Without a inquiry the writer succsessfully shows George and Lennies relationship as not very good at times. When I think of the fop time I could have without you I go nuts. This is suggesting that George is acquiring very sick of Lennie unendingly getting them both in trouble because whenever he does do something bad they both have to move and get a new job.He is also getting sick of Lennies childish behaviour and how he constantly has to motivate Lennie what to do and tell him about their plans all of the time. When George says this Lennie tells him taht if he wants he will go off on is own and live by himself because he knows George care s about him but thinks he is too such(prenominal) for him to handle. This federal agency that George doesent want Lennie around all the time because he is too much bother and he is laying waste Georges life. as well as George wants them to thrum together bacause it is during the great depression. The writer also shows George as a father build for Lennie by how he tells Lennie what to do. Lennie, for god sakes, dont drink so much. This is because George cares for Lennie and doesnt want him to get sick. It is like how a advance would tell their child not to drink too much and to not be greedy. When George syas for god sakes it shows how George is getting a bit annoyed at Lennie because he says it class of snapping at him. George raised the gun and steadied it and brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennies head. George shoots Lennie because he is always getting them both into trouble and George is getting sick of it.The writer drags it out to build up the strain so the reader can imagine how horrible it would be for George to do it after he promised Lennies auntie that he would look after him. George cares for Lennie so he doesnt want him to get hurt, Get him Lennie, dont let him do it. This is particularly effective because it shows how George wants Lennnie to be able to fight back and stick up for himself so he doesnt have to fight for him all of the time, but doesnt want Lennie to be pushed around all the time so it shows that their relationship is close. Where we going George? So you forgot already did you? I gotta tell you again? Lennie forgets everything, so George always has to remind him of their plans and what they are doing which is why George gets very annoyed with him at times. When George says again this is showing that he has already explaind their plans to Lennie and that he is slowly getting sick of telling him. Also when he says already this is showing that George is expecting Lennie to forget what he told him but he didnt expect it to be quite so soon.Lennie looks up to George and copies everything he does. Lennie who had been watching imitated George exactly. This is because he follows George around all the time so he is like a father figure. Also because George does everything right, Lennie wants to be just like him. George tells Lennie to stay away from curled and his wife because he knows that they are trouble and he doesnt want Lennie getting them both in bother with Curly. This is showing George as being very protective of Lennie because he knows what Curly is like and he knows that he will end up getting hurt.In the beginning, Geeorge and Lennie are on their way to where they will lead work because Lennie got them both in big trouble at their last job because he is incompetent and doesnt think, which is why George has to tell hime what to do and keep him out of trouble like a parent and their child. George has to tell Lennie where to go if he gets in trouble because he knows he will get int o trouble because he always gets into trouble but he wants to make sure that he is okay and that they can stay together and so George can look after Lennie like he promised his aunt.