Difference Between Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Lennie is upset when he kills the puppy, which shows that he doesn’t want trouble and actually wants to get the dream ranch so that he can tend to the rabbits. When he kills the puppy, Lennie talks about George, “He’ll say, ‘You done it. Don’t try to put nothing over on me.’ An’ he’ll say, ‘Now jus’ for that you don’t get to tend no rabbits!’” (Chapter 5, p.85). Lennie then goes on to say, “Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits. Now he won’t let me.” (Chapter 5, p.85). Lennie also shows anger and remorse for killing the puppy, just because he won’t be able to tend to the animals at the dream ranch. Therefore, he does believe they can get the dream ranch, because of his behavior after killing the puppy.

Lennie has his mind set on one thing. That is getting out of the barn and getting his own piece of land with George. This dream motivates Lennie to always listen and follow what George says. There he can finally tend the rabbits he has always wanted. Lennie loves petting things such as small animals and dresses which usually leads him to trouble.

Throughout the entire book, Lennie shows how the idea that owning land gives hope. Lennie is a hard worker but only has one goal in mind that is made evident throughout the book. Lennie only wants to be able to “tend the rabbits”(pg 14). Without this idea Lennie would not work or not want to work

Lennie is dim witted but still has conscious when he first got to the ranch he decided not be acquainted with Curly and instead take a liking to Candy. George and Candy say that George say that Lennie is just some dumb person who doesn't know at he's doing. Mostly, Lennie dreams about having different colored rabbits and in doing so it takes him away from the real world. John Steinbeck portray Lennie as this person who has a compulsive need to have rabbits. On page 28 Lennie said "An' rabbits," Lennie said eagerly. "An' I'd take care of 'em. Lennie's obsession for Rabbits affects the story because he's so fixated on them he has so little awareness is in the book with very little thought or comprehension of anything else. Lennie's obsession with rabbits doesn't affective his relationship with the character that much except with George, whenever they start or have a conversation it almost always comes back to Lennie bringing up the farm with a place for the rabbits and how he would get to feed them. Lennie's personality is severely hindered by the fact that he wants rabbits so much because he just doesn't have the want or urge to make friends or talk to people besides the case with accidentally running into the stable boy.

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is set during the Great Depression, whereas the American Dream is a crucial belief that is a part of the itinerant workers’ life. As itinerant workers, people worked from ranch to ranch, hoping to achieve their dream. Besides the hard work, the author Steinbeck reveals the tragic death of Lennie at the end of the story. A number of characters like George, Lennie, Curley and Curley’s wife are all responsible for the death of Lennie at the end of the story, however, George, Lennie himself and Curley’s wife are the most culpable.

George and Lennie believe they can achieve their American dream because “‘I [George] got you [Lennie] to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.’” (Steinbeck 14). They feel like they can rely on each other and their friendship and loyalty prevent them from isolating themselves. Their presence on that ranch even changed the people around them because they were accepting of the outcasts. Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s wife all open up to them about the isolation and loneliness they feel. Candy asks George if he can join them on their dream of owning their own property. George says he will consider it but eventually denies the offer when the body of Curley's wife is found, because he realizes the dream of owning a farm with Lennie is dead. As Peter Lisca states in his article, “On Of Mice and Men” from The American Dream, “The dream of the farm originates with Lennie and it is only through Lennie, who also makes the dream impossible, that the dream has any meaning for George.” While it is clear that Lennie needs George, George needs Lennie too. Without Lennie, George loses his sense of purpose and is likely to isolate himself like all the other ranchers. The strong bond between the two of them serve to contrast the economic and social conditions at the

But Lennie, perfecting his craft one incident at a time, messes everything up. Lennie’s biggest fear was not being able to tend the rabbits when they get their own land, and he loved those rabbits. Lennie grieving over killing his puppy starts conversing with Curley’s wife, a decision he should have never made. Lennie got caught in an unbelievable predicament with Curley’s wife, he was holding her mouth shut while pulling her hair, getting angry at her tell her to shut up, because he does not want to get in trouble. Because, if he did he would not be able to tend the rabbits. As she continued to scream, louder and louder as seconds went by, Lennie with his harmless intentions did not know what to do, so he shook her to get her to shut up but unintentionally broke her neck (Steinbeck, 91). Lennie knowing what to do if he ever did something bad, escapes to the hideout that only him and George know about. Eventually, everybody finds out about Curley’s wife when Candy found her dead body in the barn. At this moment, George knew he had two decisions that would change his life forever. He would either side with his new friends and find Lennie, or escape with Lennie and find another place to work. George makes the right decision and sides with his friends, but he knew they wanted Lennie dead, so he decided to do it himself. George met up with Lennie at their hideout and told him to look the other way and envision everything good about the farm, not wanting to harm Lennie he made sure he was as happy as he could be at that very moment. As George started to describe the farm to him, he put the gun to the back of his neck and pulled the

Lennie is a pivotal character as he is the literal demonstration of how a person can be both bad and good. Lennie is immediately shown as childlike when he hides the dead mouse from George on the walk to the ranch. ‘I ain’t got nothing George. Honest’ said Lennie which also shows his love for soft little things which is common amongst children, this is exemplified by the many animal connotations throughout. An example of this is when ‘Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water’. This is imagery of a bear which references the size and strength of Lennie but his lack of intelligence. He is very simple-minded and cannot even remember his own Aunt Clara. Being such a simpleminded person, Lennie does not comprehend the intricacies of laws in society like the majority of people do. Lennie depends on George to lead and guide him and to show him what’s right and wrong. We learn that Lennie tries to be good and repeatedly asks George to hear the dream of the rabbits and their planned simple life on a farm but when Lennie is met with a situation like with Curley’s Wife in the barn, he is unable to fight his evil actions because he himself does not understand nor realise that they are evil. Furthermore, he is incapable of distinguishing the difference

Do you still remember why does Lennie wants George to talk about the farm the first time? George first introduce that fine-nice farm to us was mainly because Lennie's really want George to quote “Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove” unquote. For George and other workers like the old Candy, as I mentioned, the farm mainly symbolized as a chance of freedom, but for Lennie, since he is not smart enough, it is just as simple as the soft things that he enjoys feeling over the course of the years. However, as the old saying says “Every coin has two sides.” , behind the symbol of nice and lovely rabbits, we also know that Lennie always hurts whatever he pets.

His dream was to live on a patch of land with George and tend to rabbits. Lennie’s obstacle is himself really. He is unquestionable dependent on George and is wacky in the head, which makes him accidentally kill small animals. Curley’s wife admired him for demolishing one of Curley’s hand. She offered him to pet her hair since it was soft, but then events turned south and Lennie snapped her neck like a twig. That moment when he found out she wasn’t breathing he knew that George would give him hell and not let him tend to the rabbits. To put it differently, Lennie committed a huge mistake and kissed that dream goodbye.

Repeatedly, Lennie asks George the same questions about concerning if they will get the farm and when. This obsession is like a child needing to hear the same story over and over again, and Lennie wants George to describe the setting of the farm. Lennie’s so focused on getting the farm that he does everything under George’s guidance, because he believes that he will get the reward of living on the farm with him where he can tend rabbits. At the end of the novel, when Lennie is afraid and wants to be assured by George that everything is okay although he made the mistake with Curley’s wife, he asks again if George can paint the picture of life on the farm again. “ ‘How’s it gonna be? We gonna get a little place.’ ...’For the rabbits,’ Lennie shouted...’And I get to tend the rabbits.’ ...Lennie giggled with happiness. ‘An’ live the fatta the lan’”(105). When people are slow-witted, they are simple-minded and have emotions like children. Lennie is that sort of person. Similar to a child, he needs to be continually reassured that everything he wants and needs is everything that George is going to provide. Similarly, Curley’s wife is immature and needy like a child, continually obsessed with wanting attention. Unfortunately, she tries to get attention from Lennie, who is too slow-witted to understand what is going on. Not realizing why she’s

In the late 1930’s novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck follows the lives of two men and how they live on one another to endure the hardships nurtured from the Great Depression. George and Lennie, the main characters, venture together along the rolling hills of the western United States, looking out for one another and being there for each other even in the hardest times looking for work to pursue their lifetime dream. Lennie, a strong bold man and a hard worker, is handicapped with a mental disability while George, on the other hand, is a slim, but strong man who has taken care of Lennie ever since his Aunt Clara had perished. Both the men have big dreams of living on a beautiful farm together and raising farm animals such as chickens,

Throughout the novel, there is a lot mentioned by Lennie that he could just leave George and go live in the caves. "If you don't want me, you only jus' got to say so, and I'll go off in those hills and live by myself. An' I won't get no mice stole from me" (13). After killing Curleys wife, Lennie does as Goerge told him to do and went to hide in the bushes. While hiding in the bushes, Lennie has a couple of hallucinations.

Lennie's dream was to live on a farm with George and attend his rabbits. Although, Steinbeck wrote how rabbits secretly equals freedom, so when George killed Lennie, he was trying to help him get his freedom from everything that happened during the Great Depression. On page 81 it says, “Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits.” Lennie says this when he gets into trouble because Lennie wants George to let him take care of the rabbits on the farm they want to own.

Lennie is “jes’ like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong” (Steinbeck 43). His problem is, he does not know of his own strength and does not know how to control it in certain cases, especially when he is frightened. For example, when Curley attacked Lennie, Lennie grabbed onto Curley’s hand and held on. He was so frightened he could not let go, busting every bone in Curley’s hand. Lennie “didn’t wanna hurt him” but he is just too strong (Steinbeck 64). Later in the story, Lennie’s incredible strength causes two deaths, first he kills a puppy and then Curley’s wife. Lennie didn’t mean to kill the puppy, he explained that he “was jus’ playin’ with him… an’ he made like he’s gonna bite me… an’ I made like I was gonna smack him... an’… an’ I done it. An’ he was dead” (Steinbeck 87). Lennie was worried after he killed the puppy because he thought George wasn’t going to let him tend to the rabbits when they bought the farm. Shortly after Lennie killed the puppy, he killed Curley’s wife. He likes to touch soft things and when she lets him touch her hair, “she jerked her head sideways and Lennie’s fingers closed on her hair and hung on” (Steinbeck 91). She started to scream, which made Lennie panic. He tried to get her to be quiet “and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck 91). After he