Throughout the conversation of George and Lennie on these pages, it turns out that George gets only disadvantages out of staying with Lennie. He only gets him into trouble and he could do so much more without Lennie. But he's still staying with Lennie and I really want to know why. What is Georges reason for not leaving Lennie? Also, the way they are talking to eachother makes me think they might be related in some way. Maybe, they are uncle and nephew?
I'm wondering as well how old both of them are. When I did the first part of the reading, I thought they are probably about the same age but I'm not so sure anymore. They are definitely not brothers.
On page 16, George suddenly gets really angry at Lennie. That's when we hear the story on how they got in trouble the last time; Lennie likes to pet nice things like mice. They met a woman in a nice dress and Lennie wanted to feel the dress. His action was mistaken as a try of rape and they barely got away.
Shortly after he explodes, on page 18 line 5, he feels guilty about shouting at Lennie like that. He's afraid Lennie might leave him. On line 16 though, Lennie tries to apologize by saying he was "only foolin' about the ketchup. I don't want no ketchup". It's a very childish way but to me, it's clearly a try to apologize to George for all the trouble he gets him into.
Another example that shows that Lennie likes George is the effort he puts into remembering what he's supposed to do next day because he realizes it's very important to George.
At one point, George is telling Lennie a story that he has told him before, and Lennie, though he can't remember anything else, knows this story by heart.
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