Nature starts and ends the novel.
- The novel is balanced, it starts and ends outdoors and the rest in the middle is at the ranch.
- The ranch is not a good environment for dreamers like George and Lennie because they just want to get out. They don't belong there.
- Lennie is descibed as an animal throughout the novel which is appropriate in the end as he dies out in the nature.
One of the novel's messages is that 'having a dream goes against the laws of nature'.
- This links to the thought of 'survival of the fittest' and this may be why the book starts and ends outdoors.
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