How might Lennie's response about the cats on page 58 foreshafow future conflicts that arise in the plot?
Lennie and George's conversation about the cats foreshadows Lennie's spurts of violence, particularly in reagrd to Curley's wife.
We'd have a setter dog and a couple stripe cats, but you gotta watch out them cats don't get the little rabbits."
Lennie breathed hard. "You jus' let 'em try to get the rabbits. I'll break their God damn necks. I'll... I'll smash 'em with a stick." He subsided, grumbling to himself, threatening the future cats which might dare to disturb the future rabbits.
Of Mice and Men
