Essay on The Naïve Man in ohn Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Lennie is judged because he acts childish and is labeled as immature. Lennie is imitating George: “He pushed himself back, drew up his knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had it just right.”(Steinbeck 4). Lennie is trying to be exactly like George showing that he looks up to him, like children do.

Since he has no idea of what loyalty actually means, this gets him into accidental trouble. George really is a key role in lennie’s life and drags him to the farm in the first place. If lennie’s realizes he’s in “Trouble” he says things like “George is gonna give me hell”(100). Lennie truly is like a dog trying to make his master,George, happy. Lennie’s childlike curious personality is also seen throughout the book.

He can be very gullible and will listen to anything George tells him to do I was feelin’ pretty smart. I turns to Lennie and says, ‘Jump in’. An’ he jumps. Couldn’t swim a stroke. He damn near drowned before we could get him. (40) Because of his simple mind and George’s role in his life Lennie has learned to follow orders and listen to anything george says. And when he listens and does everything George tells him to he sometimes messes up like the drowning thing. And George has to come and save him or get him out of things. Which greatly contributes to his constant bad feeling and turmoil when it comes to George taking care of him and looking out for

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.

Lennie is innocent like a child, he is a little kid inside a big man's

Lennie is unquestioning in his loyalty to George. We see this in George’s anecdote about the Sacramento River. “‘Jump in.’ An’ he jumps”(P66) Lennie has a childlike obedience. Steinbeck shows us this in the fight between Lennie and Curley. Earlier on, George tells Lennie to not fight with Curley, Lennie remembers this and due to his childlike obedience, his “hands remained at his sides; he was too frightened to defend himself.”(P91). Once George tells Lennie to “Get him”(P91), Lennie immediately crushes Curley’s hand completely. Most mature people would know whether they should break the rules or not, because they wouldn’t get as badly hurt, but with Lennie, it is a different story. It is this childlike obedience that Steinbeck uses to show us how George needs to act as a parent towards Lennie.

In Mice And Men, there are a variety of characters that have many different personalities. Some are mean, kind, and there are some that are just plain jerks. One character in particular that has a distinct personality in Mice And Men, is Lennie. Lennie is misjudged, underestimated, and treated unfairly just because he has a mental disability. Society and many different characters treat him differently in the book.

In the novel Of Mice and Men, Lennie is constantly battling himself. throughout the story, Lennie must learn and remember to fit in with the other characters who are much brighter than he is. In addition, he must learn how to follow rules he can 't remember. After Lennie killed Curley 's wife, Lennie begins to argue with himself saying “ “I done a real bad thing,” he said. “I shouldn’t of did that. George’ll be mad.An’…he said…an’ hide in the brush till he come. He’s gonna be mad. In the brush, till he comes and runs to the brush”. When Lennie goes to the bush. He yells at himself from an imaginary of Aunt Clara “I tried, Aunt Clara, ma’am. I tried and tried. I couldn’ help it.”, “You never give a thought to George,” she went on in Lennie 's Voice. “He been doin’ nice things for you alla time. When he got a piece a pie you always got half or more’n half. An’ if they was any

The author does a good job portraying Lennie as a sympathetic character by the actions that Lennie does. In the beginning of the text Lennie found a dead mouse. Lennie told George that the only reason he had the mouse was that petting the fur on the mouse was comforting to him. ( “I could pet it with my thumb while we walked along” Steinbeck pg 6) This shows the innocence of Lennie that brings you to sympathize towards Lennie. It shows the innocents that he justs needs something to comfort him like a teddy bear to a child that is nervous. It gets him in trouble because he does not need a dead mouse and that shows how frustrated George gets at him because he is so innocent. If he were to just act his age it would be a lot simpler.

In my opinion, Lennie Small is the most interesting character in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck does a very good job describing and characterizing Lennie's personality. Lennie's character is, indeed, quite unique. A large man with enormous strength, yet kind and childlike, he seems to find joy in simple life pleasures like petting a furry animal and making the water ripple. Lennie's greatest difficulty seems to be remembering; and it is the lack of the ability to remember that ultimately leads to his tragedy at the end of the book. In the novel, Steinbeck seems to reinforce Lennie's characteristics of strength, kindness, childlike manner, and somewhat animal-like personality.

Lennie isn´t the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, and right off the bat, I know plenty of people who aren´t very bright. Heś clueless, reckless, and slow in understanding. It is a shame, as he can not really help it because it is just

Lennie is the most sympathetic character in Of Mice and Men because he’s not very bright when it comes to things and happens to forget a lot. As George and Lennie are walking to go to a new ranch George asked Lennie

Lennie is mentally disabled and so always ‘does bad things’, because of this, he constantly depends on George to protect him and get him out of trouble. For example, in Weed, Lennie constantly ‘wants to touch

He does this to make Lennie realise how lucky he is to have some on that he could rely on. But as Lennie is so vulnerable he gets angry and scares off Crooks. Lennie is a person who likes to touch soft things and is vulnerable to Curley’s wife as well as she knows she can talk to someone who won’t take advantage of him. Lennie being dumb is a harsh reality but as an innocent person causes bad things to happen.