George Milton The Salinas River bank
Ch. 1
George and Lennie camp by the green pool the night before they start work, and George lays down the plan: if trouble comes, Lennie is to return here and wait. The quiet riverbank is both the book's opening and its closing, the only patch of the world that is theirs. Everything between happens under its shadow.
Ch. 1
inferred The opening places the sandy pool and willow bank a few miles south of Soledad on the Salinas River. The exact spot is unnamed; sited on the river just south of the town where the text puts it.
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