In the novel and the film, the incident takes place in
Weed. This is a small town where George and Lennie were formerly working. It is not so
different from Soledad, and hints to the reader that the two men have been travelling
through many such towns in the California dust bowl, trying to scrape together a
life.
We are told that straight after Lennie has touched
the girl's dress, the girl complains to the police that she had been raped. Lennie - and
George by association - are being pursued by a lynch mob. They hide until they can get
away-
So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water
all the rest of that day. Got on'y our heads sticking outa water, an' up under the grass
that sticks out from the side of the ditch.
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