Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Lennie Small is one of the main characters in the book. He is mentally disabled and has the mind of a child. Lennie is a misunderstood character who has good intentions but doesn’t understand the impact of his actions. The only character Lennie has a close relationship to George, who sees him as a burden blocking the way to his American dream.

This is where Lennie always in trouble and George is the only one there to save him. "Jus' wanted to feel that girl's dress--jus' wanted to pet it like it was a mouse----- Well, how the hell did she know you jus' wanted to feel her dress? She jerks back and you hold on like it was a mouse."

His reaction was to not move and he would not let go of her dress. Only when George “socked him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go,” did Lennie realize what was happening (Steinbeck 38). Another similar incident occurs in chapter five, when Lennie accidentally murders Curley’s wife. Lennie had been alone in the barn and still mourning over the death of his pup (he had accidentally just killed the pup), when Curley's wife entered the barn.

Lennie doing what he always does ended up getting in trouble. “So he reaches out to feel this red dress and the girl lets out a squawk.” The girl got scared that Lennie was going to do something to her so she ran out screaming. Whenever Lennie wants to touch something soft it usually gets hurt.

In John Steinbeck’s work, Of Mice and Men, Lennie is compared to an animal multiple times which degrades from his sense of humanity and leads to a greater gap between George and himself causing Lennie to become almost nothing to the reader, and to the other characters in the story as well. While George has sharp figures and is precisely described, Lennie is shown as more animalistic, and not really given a lot of traits and characteristics. Also, the other people in the ranch/farm approach Lennie with fear and caution.

In the afternoon during the guys, who worked on the farm, horseshoe tournament, Lennie was in the barn talking to the puppy he bounced and accidently killed when Curley’s wife walked in. Lennie told her that George told him he wasn’t allowed to talk to her because all she is, is trouble but Curley’s wife ignored him and told him stories about how she could be famous instead of being married to Curley. Curley’s wife and Lennie ended up talking and got to the subject of Lennie liking to pet soft things. Then, Curley’s wife started talking about how soft her

Lennie small is a large strong, and un intelligent man. He rarely thinks for himself and can’t hold his own. He does not understand Who you can laugh at or when you can laugh which makes him not have any social awareness. Lennie also never learns throughout the course of this story. He never learns to stay away from some people. For All these reasons we are sympathetic for him.

with George where he can take care of rabbits. One night, before arriving at the ranch, Lennie and George camp by the Salinas River and talk about their hopes for the future. Lennie says to George, “Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits,” (14). Later in the story, Lennie is in the barn with Sometimes dreams don’t come true

Because of the infantile and trivial characteristics of which Lennie is portrayed with in the first chapter of Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, is deemed unsuccessful to exemplify Lennie as one to feel sympathy towards. It is only within a few pages of this novella that we begin to feel a bit of disapprobation towards Lennie's actions. This being when "His hand went into the pocket again. George looked sharply at him. 'What'd you take outa that pocket?' 'Ain't a thing in my pocket,' Lennie said cleverly."(Page 3) Immediately after reviewing this quote, Lennie's primary goal became quite obvious. This goal being that he is trying to instigate George, his acquaintance, into committing acts of frustration for his own amusement. This is especially emphasized when Steinbeck uses

At the end of the novel, George is faced with a tough decision of whether to kill his best friend and companion Lennie, or let him face the consequences of what he has done. George is placed in this predicament because Lennie has found himself in trouble once again. Lennie likes to stroke pretty soft things and becomes entranced with Curley’s wife’s hair, with which she lets him play. After a while, Curley’s wife begins to get angry and starts jerking away, which makes Lennie panic causing him to hold on tighter. Not knowing his on strength, he pulls on her neck too hard accidently killing her. Lennie is mentally handicapped and only realizes he has done something wrong but cannot comprehend the gravity of the situation. He only remembers the

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men both Lennie and George needed each other, whether they liked it or not. Both the characters have a conversation about how they are different from others. George starts off the conversation by saying, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family.”. Lennie finishes their motto by saying, “But not us! An’ why?... because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you.” (13,14). Everyone needs and has a friend, even if they do not think the have one they do, but just do not realize.

We have been reading the book "Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck for about a month. I loved each of the characters, but the one that stood out to me was Lennie. He is a childish grown man who can't seem to think on his own. He is constantly around George who makes his decisions for him. George also knows Lennie's needs.

In the fictitious book Of Mice and Men, two cast away men from California. The men are in a very difficult time period known as The Great Depression. One man, Lennie, has put himself, as well as his best friend George in a tough spot to find work. However, they have found jobs to work on a ranch that has many different perspectives. Steinbeck depicts Lennie as a sympathetic character thanks to his affection for soft items and misconception of physical power and strength in order to isolate the purpose of expressing that innocence is unbalanced and viewed differently by individuals.

George is a worker who travels farm to farm looking for a job with his friend who is mentally disabled man, Lennie. They live during the Great Depression. The two men dream of buying a small farm by saving all the money they possibly can. Even though George is the smallest and skinniest of them both he has more of dominant character over Lennie because of Lennie’s disability. George treats Lennie like his parent because of the difficult situation Lennie tends to involve George into. George must alway arise to responsibly and deal with any possible problems Lennie can cause in him.

Up north, they had recently been run out of a town called Weed on account of Lennie. First of all, Lennie is not very smart, and becomes frightened and confused easily. Also, he enjoys petting animals and feelingthings that grab his attention. One night in Weed, Lennie and George had gone to a pool hall. Lennie saw a girl wearing a bright red dress. He grabbed on to the sleeve of her