How does Steinbeck use their relationship in the novel as a whole to convey ideas about America in the 1930s?

How does Steinbeck use their relationship in the novel as a whole to convey ideas about America in the 1930s?

1. Lonliness

   • Wall Street Crash
   • Itinerant workers
     • Geroge and Lennie have to travel around
     • Town bud just leaves them- shows attitude to jobs.

2. Aunt Clara contrast with Curley's Wife

   • The two women in the novel

3. No love between the two

   • No sentimental thoughts
     • Only how George woiuld be angry
   • Same as the time as many people had to travel around looking for work without their fammilies

4. Attitude towards women

   • Both look at them as objects 'jail bait' rather than people