Friendship

Question 1

Candy’s friendship with his dog

Answer 1

• '’Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’ The old man squirmed uncomfortably.’
  —> The other people don’t understand his friendship. The lonely nature of itinerant worker have been broken down using his dog. He doesn’t want to return back to that lifestyle

Question 2

Slim talking about the lonely nature of itinerant workers

Answer 2

• “Ain’t many guys travel around together,”
• Slim talks about the scarcity of friendship and the lack of trust in society in chapter two.
• Steinbeck is using this scenario to voice the lack of trust in society due to issues like the Jim Crow Laws where a whole community would turn on individuals (most often it was black people).
• Predatory nature of humans

Question 3

George being a parental figure to Lennie, their friendship is similar of father and son

Answer 3

• ‘imitated George exactly’
• copying George, even to ‘the way George’s hat was’
• George has a parental influence over Lennie.
• Lonely itinerant and disability context makes this special
• ‘I been good, George’

Question 4

Candy wanting to be friends with George and Lennie

Answer 4

‘S’pose I went in with you guys…How’d that be?’

Question 5

Bosses reaction to George and Lennie

Answer 5

• “Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.”
• reinforces the rarity of friendship during the Great Depression