Lennie and George have to leave their job in Wedd because Lennie strokes a woman's red dress and she thinks she has been raped so she then goes to the police and they have to run away because they could be arrested.
Lennie and George first went to a ranch in Weed, California, where they had to flee due to an incident involving Lennie and a girl's dress.
George tells Slim the story of what happened in Weed to explain the circumstances that led him and Lennie to flee the town. He wants to provide context for their current situation and demonstrate the bond he shares with Lennie, as well as the challenges they face due to Lennie's mental disability. This conversation also highlights George's protective nature towards Lennie, illustrating the difficulties of their transient lifestyle during the Great Depression.
In the incident in Weed from John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," Lennie accidentally scares a young woman by grabbing her dress because he likes soft things. This leads to a misunderstanding and the woman accusing him of trying to assault her. Lennie and George have to flee from Weed to avoid trouble.
Lennie has a want to touch soft things so he saw a young woman's dress and touched it. The girl started screaming and was really scared and he just held on stronger and stronger until George had to make him let go of her. They had to leave because the townspeople were looking to kill him because the girl had said she had been raped.
The town from which George and Lennie are fleeing at the beginning of the novel is called Weed. They left Weed because Lennie's actions involving a woman's dress caused trouble and led to them escaping to find work elsewhere.
A small town called Weed.
A small town called Weed.
They left weed because Lennie had grabbed a girls dress because it looked soft and he like petting soft things. The woman got scared and started yelling which made Lennie hold on tighter when George finally got him to let go they had to run because the girl ad gone around saying Lennie had raped her so they had to run away and leave weed.
George says in weed, Lennie accidentally grabbed a girls dress because he thought it looked pretty and he likes to feel things, (like the soft fur of the mice) but the girl thought Lennie was trying to attack her so she ran screaming to the authorities causing George and Lennie to have to run away in order to not be caught and put in jail.
Lennie saw a girl in a red dress. He touched it, she panicked and Lennie would not let go. The girl was scared and told people that she had been raped by Lennie, even though this was a lie. Lennie and George had to run away.
He lied to the man, he said the job was done, but what really happened was that Lennie got them kicked out of Weed
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