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3.) George and Lennie are dependent or each by the way they have lived with each other for such a long time. Lennie is dependent on George to get him food, a job, to keep him safe, everything that Lennie needed to survive. George is dependent on Lennie in the way that Lennie unknowingly keeps him in check. George couldn't go off and do something irresponsible cause Lennie was always waiting for him back at home. Lennie also kept George in check cause it made George always think about what he was going to do. It was like a father-son relationship with George as the father and Lennie as the son. Lennie relied on George to keep him alive and George relied on Lennie to keep him looking for jobs and keeping George responsible and always thinking. .
4.) The dream of one day owning a farm affects all of the characters that think of it. That dream gave them all hope. When Lennie and George thought about it, it gave Lennie hope cause he actually thought it would happen no matter what happened. It gave George hope despite his knowing that it would never actually come true. This dream also gave hope to Candy cause that's what he always wanted to do. And with Candy's realization that this dream could come true with all the money he had saved up, it gave renewed hope to both George and Lennie. Finally, it gave hope to the last person who wanted it, Crooks. Crooks being a disabled black worker, had almost forgotten anything but the smallest dreams for he knew that he could never have his dream come true. But when he heard that they had the money and that they were actually planning to do this, his hopes soared that maybe, just maybe they would need a hand around the farm. Therefore, this dream was a dream of hope to whomever it touched. .
5.) George would live a different life without him. And he said so himself. He said if it weren't for Lennie, he would be spending all his money on whores and whiskey, wasting his life away drowning his woes away in booze.