Lennie and George arrived at the ranch in the late afternoon.
Lennie and George arrived at the ranch in the evening, just before sunset.
The boss is angry with George and Lennie because they arrive late to the new job and don't have proper work clothes. He also suspects them of being troublemakers because they travel together instead of alone like most other ranch workers.
In the book, when George and Lennie enter the ranch for the first time George has to cover for Lennie by claiming that he was kicked in the head by horse as a kid. After that though, Lennie asks why he lied. Other than that, Steinbeck never writes the name. You can Google it. :)
In the book, when George and Lennie enter the ranch for the first time George has to cover for Lennie by claiming that he was kicked in the head by horse as a kid. After that though, Lennie asks why he lied. Other than that, Steinbeck never writes the name. You can Google it. :)
At the end of the book Lennie once again returns to the brush down by the Salinas River. That was where the book started and where George and Lennie stayed before they went to the Ranch, where they cooked beans and talked about their own plot of land for the first time.
Both migrant workers who longed a dream of owning their own ranch, not having to be under anyone's orders, but the novel has cyclic pattern where nothing is going to change, and George realises this; that he will spend his time on the ranch with the others, drinking and visiting the brothel, so he shoots Lennie because he knows he can't look after him anymore because Lennie just got them in trouble, and Lennie would have been better off.
Unlike the other guys on the ranch who have no one to look after them, Lennie and george have each other.
To start their own ranch, and Lennie can tend the Rabbits
Because he think curly will see him with his wife and will beat up lennie, and they will lose their jobs, and because he doesn't want to repeat the accident that happened in weed with the girls dress...:)
George realized that if he left Lennie at the brush, Curley would come after Lennie and torture him before murdering him in the most brutal way possible. Don't then say "And why didn't George just run away with Lennie?" He didn't because Curley is bloodthirsty and will stop at nothing to kill Lennie. The way I see it, the brush is relatively close to the ranch, and Curley will be there in a few moments. George had no time to run away. George knew as well that if he somehow managed to help Lennie escape, Lennie will definitely get himself into trouble again, as we see as a consistent theme running through the book. George shoots Lennie in the back of the head - the same way Candy's dog was killed. Both acts were viewed as ones of kindness, as neither Lennie nor Candy's dog would be able to survive in a world where the mighty rule the meek. Especially not during the time of the Depression.
George and Lennie think they are different from the other men because most men at that time had no one as they travelled round on there own but George and Lennie have each other.
George gets frustrated because he does not want others to find out about moving to the ranch. If Curley or the Boss finds out that they want to move away, they may cut George and Lennie as workers and therefore they will not be able to move to the ranch.