more childish and he gets excited when he thinks of tending the rabbits on the farm. Lennie is helpless to make the dream reality and relies on George to get it and him out of trouble.
             At the beginning of the novel, in chapter 1, George and Lennie are in the brush. They are sitting by the river's edge. They have been dropped off buy a bus and have had to walk for miles and are very tired. The next morning the two of them have to be at work on a ranch in Soledad and George tells Lennie that he will be doing all the talking.
             In this chapter you also find out about the last job they had at Weed and why they had to leave, Lennie got the m in trouble and they had to run.
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