During the book Of Mice and Men George and Lennie have one goal and that is to buy a little piece of land out in the country and settle down. They showed a lot of passion while talking about that piece of land like when Crook was talking to Lennie “ What rabbits. We're gonna have rabbits an a berry patch. your nuts” (143 John Steinbeck) This shows how Lennie was really planning on moving to this little piece of land and how passionate he was about it and this passion represents the color red.
Even if the relationship that George and Lennie had was strong George seemed quite angry at Lennie throughout the book. Even at the beginning George give Lennie a mouth full about how he can be so better without him. It is also shown how George is looked up to by Lennie. One good example of George’s anger is “George put down his cards very deliberately. “Lennie, ” he said sharply. Lennie twisted his neck and looked over his shoulder. “Huh? What you want, George?” “I tol’ you you couldn’t bring that pup in here.”“What pup, George? I ain’t got no pup.” “George went quickly to him, grabbed him by the shoulder and rolled him over. He reached down and picked the tiny puppy from where Lennie had been concealing it against his stomach.” 88 John Steinbeck. The way George gets physical when no one else would shows George's anger in his friendship with Lennie showing the color red.
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Many things point to the fact that George and Lennie want that piece of land like at the beginning of the book “Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs