Franklin D Roosevelt's Impact On Lennie

The use of figurative language to make comparisons of Lennie and the animals serves as a way of illustrating Lennie’s personality – being docile and innocent. This allows the readers to further understand Lennie’s actions. In some parts of the story Lennie was described with non-human characteristics, which is a key element to the conflicts that arise in the

The author, Steinbeck, uses his own personal experience to “serve as an inspiration…” (Johnson 1) when writing this particular story. His past experiences also helped him for the future. Lennie, of all characters, is the least dynamic. He undergoes a significant amount of change and develops throughout the story. He has been isolated with George throughout his life. His sole purpose in life is to make George happy and to own a farm with George and take care of the soft rabbits. Lennie is the most innocent and defenseless. He also is the largest and strongest, which does not help in certain situations. Lennie is the protagonist in the story. He gains the readers sympathy by his intellectual disability and helplessness. Lennie murders things by accident such as the mouse in his pocket, the puppy and Curley’s wife. He enjoys the touch of and somehow uses those murders and experiences to scare him from doing it again. George’s opinion means the most to him.

The author of this review focuses on the life of Lennie. She sympathizes with the hard times Lennie had to go through as a character. The author describes Lennie to the readers as an innocent, childlike character who is misunderstand by the people surrounding him. She describes Lennie 's love for soft things and his wanting of George 's approval. The author gives the review from Lennie 's point of view and describes George as a rolemodel to Lennie. She

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.

The novel is set during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. During this time, many

Lennie Small is a stable, but physically strong man who is George’s partner and is his constant and trustworthy companion. He has a habit for soft things, considering the fact that he is a big person and that he enjoys little, soft items in which that some of these can lead to trouble for him.

The setting of this novella takes place in Salinas Valley in California during the 1930s, the time of the Great Depression. The Great Depression began when the stock market in the United States dropped rapidly.

He loves touching soft things, such as a cotton dress or a soft puppy and sees these things as calming. Lennie dreams of having a small piece of land with his friend George; particularly with having a small rabbit hutch where he can tend rabbits. Since Lennie is incapable of making decisions by himself he relies on George to guide and make decisions for him even though Lennie usually does not realize the things he does are wrong. His Aunt Clara raised him and requested George to take care of Lennie before she passed

First, Lennie is mentally challenged, and therefore, living life is much harder for him. His illness is so bad to the point that he, a full grown man, is not fit to take care of himself. He has a tendency to touch soft things, which will eventually lead to him killing rabbits, puppies, and even a women. Lennie possesses such short term memory loss, that he can not even remember something that happened to him as little as five minutes before. This makes him forget about everything fun that has ever happened to him, or accidents that he should remember, but doesn’t, and learn from. Due to his love of touching all soft things, Lennie kills Curley's wife unintentionally by gipping her neck too tightly, something a normal human being would never think of doing. Besides the consequences of his mental disorder, Lennie also once possesses a dream of living with George on a ranch, living only off of the land. However, after he kills Curley’s wife, his dream is stolen from him and locked up forever. Right before George shoots Lennie, the text states, “ ‘Go on,’ said Lennie. ‘How’s it gonna be? We gonna get a little place. . . . For the rabbits,’ Lennie shouted. . . . ‘And I get to tend the rabbits. . . . An’ live on the fatta the lan’ ’ ” (105-6). Lennie was so excited that he and George were about to live out their dream together, until it was all taken away from him. As he spoke in happiness

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, one of the characters, named Lennie Small, appears as a migrant worker who is large in size and acts very childlike. Through the whole story, he seems to be only focused on three things: a rabbit farm, loyalty to George, and soft things. John Steinbeck used these three ideas to present Lennie as a simple, but lovable character during the novel. But, Lennie doesn’t understand how easily he can hurt people due to his misunderstanding of his strength. He enjoys petting anything soft which leads to many incidents throughout the story because he would always pet things too hard, whether it is a mouse, puppy, a dress, or a lady’s hair.

Loneliness accounts for much of Lennie 's inner conflicts, his dream for the farm, and the desire for friendship and affection. His desire for friendship makes him have an obsession for soft objects. The relationships in Lennie 's life do not provide him with a sufficient amount of care and affection that Lennie needs. His mental condition along his uncontrollable strength makes him unable to achieve this sociability. Lennie 's feelings and emotions are

In the beginning of the story the author wrote about why George and Lennie had to leave Weed. Lennie is special, and he likes to touch soft things, but almost every time he pets the animals too hard that it kills them. Lennie saw a woman with a frilly dress and touched her dress, the woman

Lennie is the gentlest person anyone could meet, he just sometimes cannot remember if he has met them or not. Lennie’s exterior is a rugged, burley kind of guy, but in this book, he is just a big teddy bear who would never dream of hurting anyone. Yet again, looks can be deceiving. Although he is willing to pick up a dead mouse so he could “pet it with [his] thumb while [they] walked along (6), there are people that are incredibly intimidated by him and his strength. For instance, Curley wanted to beat George up mainly because he was bigger than he was. Even though people associate with him, they don’t treat him like one of their own. Lennie is the muscles, that’s all. His physical appearance contradicts his mental appearance. From a distance, Lennie is a huge man who seems as though he could beat someone to the ground if they looked at him wrong, but in reality, he is nice to anyone. Due to George, Lennie can actually confront the world. Most times Lennie is not mentally stable

The novel was written in the 1930’s when a horrific event occurred in known as the Wall Street crash on the 29th of October 1929. Millions of dollars were wiped out during this period and it led to the most unfortunate event America ever encountered, known as the Great Depression. The country was absolutely crippled between the years 1030-39. People lost their houses, savings and jobs and the president at the time, Herbert Hoover set up ‘Hooverville’s’ which were little shanties made out of packing cases and iron which presents how severe the conditions were and the turmoil America was in. 1/3 of men and women were unemployed and people lost all their investments.

Lennie is portrayed as being childlike. He looks up on George as a parental figure: "Lennie 's lips quivered and tears started in his eyes." Lennie seek reassurance from George like a child does from their parents. He displays the excitement of a child: "Tell me about the rabbits, George. Tell me about the rabbits."