Character Analysis Of Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

George even uses Lennie’s need as leverage to keep him under control. Lennie strives to hold responsibility. Unfortunately, Lennie tends to hurt the animals that he does receive. He is too strong for the animals that she cares for. During their journey from Weed, Lennie tends to a mouse, only to end up killing the fragile creature. Later on, George gets Lennie a puppy that Lennie regretfully kills with his power. Lennie’s good intentions fell short in comparison to his power. Lennie was looking for responsibility in pets but took on too much when the animals would be killed by his overwhelming strength.

In the digital, literary, and real world, good friends support each other with encouraging words and pep talks. Parents, however, might be harsher and lecture their child or make decisions for them. To most people, a father or mother is not a best friend. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George is a bad friend to Lennie because he acts like a parent and treats Lennie like a child. Various situations throughout this novel show how George feels like the father of a handicapped child and is obligated to take care of Lennie. This new role he takes on makes George act out against Lennie.

Lennie Small has a very symbolic importance in the novel Of Mice and Men. In the novel George Milton and Lennie Small both migrant workers pursue their dream of someday owning their own ranch by travelling around working as ranch hands to earn a living. The dream they share is to be able to "live off the fat of the land,". Lennie Small is a very complex character, although he may not appear to be at first glance. Lennie is the most interesting character in the novel because he differs from the other is many ways. Lennie Small ironically is a man of large stature and is very strong. He is child-like in his emotions and has a diminished mental capacity. Lennie's feelings are much like that of a normal person when you take into

In the Salinas River Valley, after the Great Depression, there were a large number of unemployed workers seeking jobs. In the fiction novel "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, Lennie Small is among one of those men. Lennie and his friend George both have just received jobs on a ranch as farm workers. What brings the two together is their dream to someday own their own land. Lennie has a lot of character and personality traits that define him. One trait that he has is he is very forgetful. Another trait he has is he is very curious. A final trait he has is that he is very reliant. Although he might not be the intelligent person in the book, he has a very well developed personality. Lennie demonstrates his personality and character

In addition, Lennie's childlike manner is portrayed in his dependency on George. He listens to everything George tells him and depends on him for necessities such as food and water. In fact, it seems that without George Lennie would be unable to survive.

If you were mentally challenged and could not perform daily tasks like everybody else, would you want to be shamed and belittled to words such as ‘crazy’ or ‘retarded’? This was the situation for Lennie Small in the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck. In the novel, Lennie works on a farm with his friend, George. George and other characters in the book trivialize and dismiss Lennie as crazy, instead of what he really was; mentally disabled with cases such as Autism, Asperger's, or even mild down syndrome. Lennie possess many characteristics that are very similar to those who have mental illnesses. Also, during the time that the novel Of Mice and Men was published, these illnesses

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.

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.

The problem with Lennie was that he was mentally disabled, back in the 1930's people did not understand things like that, and had no clue about disabled people. Lennie was sweet and loved thing that were soft. Lennie would put himself in very dangerous situations and with disability he lacked the capacity to control himself physically. Lennie did not understand how strong he was and they damage he would do until after the fact. He also shares the dream of having the small farm and tending to his small rabbit hutch. Since Lennie is mentally disabled he depends on George for almost everything. Lennie is like a small child that has to a have a parent nearby always or he will get into

As they both begin to converse, it becomes quite apparent that George is the head between the two, while Lennie is the dependent one upon George. This image helps illustrate that George is the parental figure where Lennie is the timid child who is afraid of what is in front of him. This is highlighted when the author says, “Think I’d let you carry your own work card?” (Steinbeck 5). This quote highlights how George acts as the adult figure for Lennie. George knows that Lennie will lose everything because of his asinine mind, and therefore has to look after Lennie’s vital goods.

In Of Mice and Men Lennie Small and his friend George Milton travel and work together as migrant workers on ranches bucking barley for a living. In contrary to his name, Lennie Small is a very large man with incredible strength. However, he is unaware of his own strength. Lennie’s strength is obviously helpful for work, but is harmful in other situations he is faced with and ultimately causes his death.

Lennie is a very misunderstood individual. He has some sort of mental issue that makes his life different than normal. Lennie has a thing for soft fluffy things, he likes to hold them and pet them. Most of the time these soft things end up dead which Lennie tries his hardest to keep from George when this happens. George once found a dead mouse in Lennie’s pocket that he had been keeping there for 3 whole days after it died (Lisca). Lennie is a giant of a man. He does not understand how much power he has. This causes a lot of the mistakes he makes. George is there most of the time to correct or stop Lennie from doing these things. There are sometimes when George is not there to stop him and Lennie gets them both into trouble. The two have had to move several times because of Lennie (McMurray). In fact every time they have had to leave a place was because of Lennie’s actions. There was one thing Lennie got them in and they could not run from it. Lennie was in the barn and Curley’s wife came in. He wanted to touch her hair and he ended up rubbing it too hard. She yelled for help and he wanted her to shut up so he

The human body is intruiging because it acts involuntarily and subconciously; thus, occasionally revealing our inner thoughts via movement. Involuntary and subconcious movement, such as fidgeting and licking one’s lips can divulge secrets. Likewise, John Steinbeck develops the word “ranch-hand” by revealing key components about each character within Of Mice and Men via hand description. Particularly, Steinbeck develops Lennie’s character by descriptive means.

In the beginning of the novella, Lennie is portrayed as innocent and dependent on George. When Lennie had a mouse and George asked for it, Steinbeck describes Lennie’s reaction

In the book Of Mice And Men, The character Lennie is a sympathetic character by emphasizing his happiness to almost everyone and everything he meets. To start off, Lennie shows his happiness in the brush when George first tells Lennie about the plan about living on their own farm, Lennie screams “An live off the fatta the land.” This quote shows his happiness because Lennie asks George to tell him the dream they both had with them living on their own, in a little house with pigs, cows, and alfalfa to feed the rabbits. Lennie being a very gullible individual he believed every part of George’s story, which made Lennie uncontrollably happy and impatient for the future. In addition, Lennie shows sympathy through happiness by the dialogue he had with George by the pond, “Tha’s good, You drink some, George. You take a big drink.” This shows his happiness because while Lennie’s consuming water he is happily asking George to drink some with him because of how good it is. This quote shows that every little thing can make Lennie happy because he doesn't know much better and how other to react in these situations. This is why I believe Lennie is a sympathetic character by his happiness.