Lennie could not survive on his own which why George is with him
Answer:
It sounds like desperation or jealousy but I would most likely go for Jealousy
I think that the speaker is saying that even though death is unavoidable in the end then we should not just merely accept it and try our hardest to make our lives meaningful while we are alive. She infers that she has too much that she has yet to do in her life and that she doesn’t have enough time to stop for anything, even something a powerful as death.
Picking up the story after a major event in it, like the expulsion of Satan and the fallen angels from heaven, follows the tradition of an epic beginning <em>media res</em>, in the middle of things. Homer did this first in the Iliad and the Odyssey.