On pages 99-100 of Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses image of nature to comment on the action at the ranch.Describe the image and...

In the book Of Mice and Men the story
opens with the two men, George and Lennie, heading towards the river.  It then focuses
on them at the river.  The author describes the setting in detail.  It is as if he is
also placing the memory of the river scene in the reader's mind as much as George is
placing it in Lennie's mind. 

George instructs Lennie to
remember the different things about the place so that he can use it as a future safety
zone.  The author foreshadows that Lennie may have to return to the place. 

On pages 99-100 Lennie has gotten into trouble.  He now
has had to recall the information George had told him in the beginning.  By returning
the same setting, the reader knows that Lennie has followed George's directions.  The
reader is also aware that Lennie knows he is in trouble and he goes to the safety place
as foreshadowed in the opening chapter of the book.