How does Steinbeck use settings to show the characters circumstance in Chapter 6 in Of Mice and Men?In the Salinas River and the government camp of...

The references to Weed are brief and conveyed by George to
illustrate the dangers inherent in travelling with Lennie, and also foreshadowing the
events after the death of Curley's wife. George explains how they were'run out' of Weed
after Lennie was accused of attacking a girl.

The setting
in Chapter 6 returns us to the opening of the novel, indicating the cyclical nature of
George and Lennie's lives. Lennie is still described as 'a creeping bear' and he returns
to drink from the pool - an action he was reprimanded for by George in Chapter 1. We see
the pathetic fallacy of the sunset around the Gabilan's as Lennie's life nears its close
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Lennie
turned his head and looked off across the pool and up the darkening slopes of the
Gabilans. 'We gonna get a little place,' George
began.

We also see the
imagery of the heron and the water snake reminding us of the brutal nature of the lives
of the characters as they fight for survival in the midst of the Depression. Similarly,
the ripples in the pond remind us of the effect that the two men have had on the
communities in which they have been a part -

row
on row of tiny-wind waves flowed up the pool's surface.