How does Steinbeck present the life of an itinerant worker at the beginning of the novel?

Steinbeck begins his saucy by creating the setting. He pown(prenominal)ts a beautiful image of a collected environment where Lennie and George live in. This suggests an ironic tone to their lives as it is not pickably as peaceful and harmonic as the setting. Their lives is quite the opposite, as they process hard and their only form of entertown(prenominal)ment is starting fights, drinking heartly and handout to cathouses. Readers are introduced to the lives of gipsy workers in America during the Great Depression.Steinbeck uses setting to report gypsy workers lives such(prenominal) as small square windows a symbolization of the prison-like working conditions of a farmhand worker. Also, it portrays the small constricted view of the alfresco world that these itinerant workers had. They did not have any privileges and did not support to have any luxury. It could be argued that their impresses had total control over the itinerant workers.They were confined to have a simple animateness such as displayed when it is said Tell ya what k this instant what he done Christmas? Brang a gal of whisky right in here and says, Drink hearty, boys. Christmas comes but once a year. This shows their simplicity and how they are easily pleased and impressed collect to their low expectations. Although, at the mercy of their bosses, itinerant workers were victims of exploitation of work such as organism overworked and maltreated as revealn in this quote The boss gives him hell when hes mad. This suggests the workers had to keep the boss satisfied.African-American itinerant workers are mentioned at the beginning of the book and the frequent use of the word, now an explicitly racist word nigger is heavily utilize to underscore the attitude society had to african-americans. The first reference to it is in the quote Ya see the stable bucks a nigger. We are hinted to the idea of niggers being treated worse than men such as Lennie and George, because of their skin distor t and the old belief of african-americans being less worthy. Itinerant workers were apply to the constant verbal and occasional physical abuse given by their bosses. Readers get the opportunity to understand better the mentality of itinerant workers and how they would prefer to spend their leisure time.When the end of the month come, I could take my fifty dollar bill bucks and go into town and getwhatever I want. Why, I could assay in a cathouse all night., Order any mend thing I could think of, Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play card or shoot pool. Readers keep being reminded of their simple life and low-life cheap entertainment which was the norm, this was what itinerant workers enjoyed. Another suggestion to entertainment enjoyed by them is in the form of violence After that the guys went into Soledad and raised hell.. As they were farm-men and cognize for being masculine, they would carry out violent acts for the sake of satisfaction.Their simple expre ssive style of living and their natural simplicity is stressed several times in the beginning of the novel such as when Lennie is described to the boss in an attempt to make him appear more handy Oh I aint saying hes bright. He aint. scarcely I say hes a God maledict good worker.. This emphasises the lack of education amongst itinerant workers. It is also reflected in the sociolect used by these men, which is grammatically incorrect but widely spoken An you aint gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed, neither.In conclusion, we are exposed to a lot of information in the beginning of the novel that describes the way itinerant workers lived and their personalities and interests in order to correctly understand the story.