‘But not us! An’ why? Because …. Because I got you, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why’. This quote is very ironic as we know at the end George has to kill him, to save him. In this quote we can see steinbecks use of foreshadowing which creates a sense of tension within the text and as we know, lennie can be unpredictable and this gives us the reader worry for lennie and makes it apparent that there is an inevitable ‘bad ending’ to the story where they never accomplish their dream.