Of Mice And Men: Part 2

I think that Lennie is afraid because everyone was rude to them when they first got there. An example of this is the way that their boss looked at them on his way out of the bunkhouse.(pg. 23 "he turned and looked for a long moment at the two men.") They made a mistake at attempting to hide the fact that Lennie wasn't very bright because in the end they didn't make a good impression on the boss. Since Curley had something against "big guys" like the swamper said on pg. 27 "'Well . . . tell you what. Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy.’” I also think that Lennie was afraid because George seemed more uptight than usual. Like the way he was yelling at Lennie after the “job interview”. “‘Yeah, you forgot. You always forget, an’ I got to talk you out of it.’ He sat down heavily on the bunk. ‘Now he’s got his eye on us. Now we got to be careful and not make no slips.’”