Curley and Carlson, unlike Slim, with his "God-like eyes," and George, "small and quick,with restless eyes and sharp features" whom they watch walk away, represent the isolated men. These are the men who have spent too long alone, and the predatory features of their nature have emerged. Curley and Carlson do not understand, as Slim does, that the dreams of Lennie and George are what have sustained them and protected them from the inhospitable world of men such as they. This line underscores the theme of distrust that arises from the alienation and loneliness of the itinerant workers of the Great Depression.
It is fitting that these men stand, "looking after" George and Slim, for they represent the callous, insensitive, brutal, and violent destructivess of isolated man that George must now face without Lennie to share his "dream" in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
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