Describe The Relationship Between George And Lennie

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The relationship of george and lennie is very different than that of curly and his wife's. curly and his wifes relationship lacked love and communication while heorhe and curly's relationship was simply built off of those qualities. Communication is one of the qualitlies why george and lennies relationship is so strong. George andlennie always talk about there dream of living on a small farm. "someday-- we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and--" (page 14) George ans lennie's talks about living on the house which keeps their bond strong. On the other hand curly and his wife;s relationship lacks communication the most."its only about four o'clock. None of them

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