Lennie Character Analysis

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

Lennie does not understand his own strength. When Lennie wanted to have a mouse in his pocket so he could pet it he killed it on accident because he's so strong. On page 3 Lennie said"Uh-uh. Jus' a dead mouse, George. I didn't kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead." Other characters think of Lennie as a mindless strong man who is innocent and almost never uses his strength. In terms of Lennie's strength the only time we ever see him purposefully in the book was when curly kept on hitting him and picking on him because in the way of defending himself he was the weakest since he never used his strength. What lennie did with one punch put Curly on the floor. Another character, George describe Lennie as “Strong as a bull." On page 11. So George and many other characters just

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

George and Lennie are different as they have each other for support, friendship and much more. Lennie is able to give George hope, hope that things will get better by continually talking about the dream of ‘livin’ of the fatta the land’. This in turn brightens George’s spirits and motivates him to keep on working hard and believing that ‘we got a future’. Even though Lennie helps George in many physiological ways, he also helps him physically. Lennie’s pure size and strength is so great that he is often compared to a ‘bear’ by Steinbeck; an animal which has immense power. This strength helps them gain work as ‘man, (Lennie) can work’. Without Lennie, George would have much difficulty finding manual labour jobs due to his small size.

Lennie is rejected by everyone at the ranch, except George, because of his mental disability (“Of Mice and Men” 248). People with a mental disability are often looked down upon in society. Lennie is a very large, strong man, however, people on the ranch don't believe he is a good worker because of his disability. Although Lennie has a mental disability, he has the strength to do a lot of the ranch work and is a very good worker. The men on the ranch do not realize the strength that Lennie has until he breaks Curley’s hand and ends up killing Curley’s wife. Having a disability does not imply that the individuals aren’t skilled in different areas. Handicapped by his lack of adult intelligence, Lennie is doomed in the world of a migrant worker (“Of Mice and Men” 246). He is not able to think as highly as an average adult and often times does not make the best decisions. In the novel, we are able to see the strength that Lennie has and how he is not able to control it when Steinbeck talks about how Lennie killed the mouse, the puppy, Curley’s wife and crushed Curley’s hand. Curley is a small man who tends to pick fights with the bigger men to show his strength. Curley knows about Lennie's lack of intelligence and decides to start hitting him. Lennie doesn’t do anything back until George tells him to fight back. The next punch Curley threw, Lennie caught it and squeezed Curley's hand

Lennie Small is a character that readers are drawn to right from the beginning of the book. His innocence stands out from the grimey coverings of loneliness and hopelessness that the other characters wear. The reason Lennie is so innocent is because he has a mental handicap, one that prevents him from understanding complex human emotions such as guilt, or concepts such as death. In addition Lennie has trouble remembering things, “" I tried and tried [to remember]...but it didn't do not good." Consequently, Lennie has trouble fitting in with society. Ultimately his mental disability is what leads to Lennie's demise at the end of the book. Another trait that is an essential part of Lennie's innocent character is his devotion to his closest friend George. In fact, the only times Lennie is shown to be angry is when George is insulted or threatened. When Crooks, the crippled, black, stable hand, implies bad things about George, this devotion is clearly shown. “Suddenly Lennie's eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad. He walked dangerously toward Crooks. 'Who hurt George?' he demanded" When it comes to George, Lennie would deviate from the normal passive motives of his persona. More support can be found when George is the only one who can convince Lennie to “get him[Curly]” when Curly attacks him, as well as being the only one to stop him. Perhaps the most prominent support for Lennie's childlike innocence is in his utter belief of George and his dream. No matter how

In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck makes Lennie a very sympathetic character because of his lack of intelligence, his kind heart and his large body type. In the book Of Mice and Men, 2 men Lennie and George search to find work so that one day they can accomplish the dream of owning a farm. Lennie and George go to do work on a ranch and they stay in a bunker with a couple other guys. Lennie and George's boss of the ranch is pretty tough on them and so is the boss's son Curley. Lennie and George hope that the dream of having their own plot of land will one day come true. Steinbeck was successful at making Lennie sympathetic because Lennie is A very affectionate person who does not like to hurt anyone and he really cares about other people.

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,

Lennie is a character that struggles to control his strength this is depicted through some of his actions. On page 10 George said to Lennie, "that mouse aint fresh, Lennie besides you broke it pettin' it." This shows that it's hard for him to control the urge to pet soft things but sense he is so strong he killed the mouse. Another example is that Lennie broke Curly's wife's neck when she offered to let Lennie touch her hair. Again, this shows he struggles to control his immense strength even when it comes to other human being. My last piece of evidence is when he was given a puppy from Carlson. He killed the puppy almost right after he got it because he is so strong. All this evidence really does show that Lennie struggles to control his strength.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two men, George and Lennie who travel from ranch to ranch hoping to make enough money to buy their own land. Buying the land is what George and Lennie talk about constantly, this is in fact their American Dream. They have recently left a town called Weed because of an incident that happened there and are now heading to Soledad to work on another ranch. John Steinbeck was successful in making Lennie a sympathetic character because he portrays Lennie as a big strong muscular man that has basically no brain, so he doesn’t really know his own strength so when he hurts someone or does something bad you can’t really blame him.

George throughout Of Mice and Men had a goal he wanted to achieve. George had different obstacles in his way to achieve his goal and he was constantly working to achieve said goal, which is to own a farm house and "live off the fatta the land." Lennie also had a similar goal and George would be constantly helping Lennie to achieve that goal or leading him to believe it was going to happen soon, just to comfort him. George mostly had things dragging him down like lack of money and Lennie to deal with.

The underlying storyline imbedded within Of Mice and Men, is the development of one’s dream, and all it entails. George and Lennie are constantly referring back to their dream of owning land to themselves, “there wouldn’t be no more runnin’ round the country and gettin’ fed by a Jap cook” (Steinbeck 57). During the 1930’s, most of society owned little to nothing, so George and Lennie would fantasize an easier, less complicated life filled with luxury, not hardships. They crave a life of comfort after such a long time of angst. After working under men of higher authority in businesses/farms, George and Lennie long for their own sense of control: “’An’ it’d be our own, an’ nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy we can say, ‘Get the hell

Lennie was “a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders”(pg.2). He was very strong even though he couldn’t control his strength.

In the novella Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, the relationship between Lennie Small and George Milton is complex. Lennie and George are two companions who look for work and brave the hardships of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression together. Although Lennie and George are both grown men, their relationship resembles more of a child and a single parent, or a boy and his dog. Lennie is portrayed as animalistic and childish through his behavior and Steinbeck’s comparisons. This reveals the crucial power dynamic in George and Lennie’s relationship.

In the novel of Mice and Men, author John Steinbeck describes a story where two ranch workers, George and Lennie, move from place to place looking for work on ranches in California during the Great Depression. Lennie is a mentally disabled giant who is unaware of his own strength. George is a brother like figure to Lennie always looking out for him. These men have a dream to own their own farm, and have freedom from the harsh life on the ranches. Other people living on the ranch have similar dreams, but have failed. These failed dreams have made the ranch workers mean, bitter, and powerless. Steinbeck develops a story that touches on the aspect of human relationships, and the impact they have on society. Steinbeck illustrates how in order for people to feel powerful they use their strength to oppress others,