Question

Throughout the novel to this point, steinbeck has used several occasions to comment on the relationship between george and lennie. How does steinbeck comment on the relationship at the beginning of this passage? why do you think he feels that it is necessary to revisit the nature of relationships between men in the depression?.

Answer 1

Steinbeck shows the reader that George defends Lennie, even to someone he respects, like Slim. Slim again comments that many migrant workers during the Great Depression do not travel with a companion and move quickly from job to job. Steinbeck highlights just how strange George and Lennie's relationship is to the 21st century reader who would not consider such a relationship unusual.

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