Today's Lennie In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie’s character archetype can represent many aspects throughout the story. In the story Lennie’s character is seen as the child of the group. He is also seen as the cause of death, or the trouble that follows himself and George. His character is important to creating the storyline of the book. The use of archetypes In Of Mice and Men help to create the personality of Lennie’s character.

Relationships are based on give and take. Three things that Lennie contributes to his friendship with George and vice versa are easily shown through the text. Lennie contributes by being the main breadwinner, his strength, and how he understands George. Lennie is the main breadwinner because he is strong and a fast learner. Lennie’s strength helps and hinders the friendship. His strength can help with work but it can also hurt when he doesn’t realize how strong he truly is in fights. Lennie also understands George. George says multiple times that he wouldn’t be the same without his “brother”. George contributes with his brains, helping Lennie keep on track, and being a smooth talker. Lennie has got into a lot of trouble, but George is always there to save him. George is the one that is able to keep Lennie on track and get the jobs they need. His brains also help when he has to speak for Lennie, because if Lennie

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

I would like to thank everyone who has come here today to say goodbye to a dear friend of mine and yours. A friend who was kind. A friend who loved everyone.A friend. Lennie Small was my only friend. He was my family.

"I just done it ... took [the gun] an' ... killed him" says George on murdering Lennie (Steinbeck 107). John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men takes place at a ranch near Soledad, California during the Great Depression. George and Lennie are two migrant workers who travel together from place to place. Lennie has a mental disability and likes to pet soft objects. One day, Lennie starts to pet a woman’s hair. After the woman starts to panic, Lennie accidentally snaps her neck and kills her. George then hunts down Lennie and murders him. George murdered Lennie because Lennie didn’t wish to die.

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.

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.

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

Doing careless things can lead to the downfall of an individual. In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Lennie does careless and thoughtless acts that lead to the downfall of himself and others around him. The careless actions of Lennie were apparent through Lennie and the pups, Lennie and Curley’s wife, and Lennie and George.

The fact that he had a mental disability limited what he would be able to do in the eyes of the people around him. This was only one of the stereotypes that came up surrounding mental disabilities, with many more concerning how fragile or weak they were. The way these ideas about mental disabilities affected Lennie’s identity around certain people cause him to feel like an outsider. This was seen mainly when people treated him as if he were incapable of doing anything regular people could do. For instance this can be seen in the quote, “.. cause he was too dumb to take care of himself,” (Steinbeck 40). The way the quote is used in the book allows readers to really see the way people viewed mental disabilities during the 1930’s. Although there is a negative connotation to having a mental disability, they are not always that severe. Thus, the commentary on mental disability in the book allows for readers to better access and understand the stereotypes that were surrounding the topic during the time.

"'No- look! I was jus' foolin', Lennie. 'Cause I want you to stay with me.'"

Lennie was left by his family at the beginning of the book. Lennie gets ridiculed by George because he does stupid things and makes very dumb mistakes. Through the historical lens, looking at Lennie is a good thing. There was so much history happening with people with mental disabilities. None of it was good but it was all history nonetheless. People would get sent to mental institutions and were treated very poorly. Most institutions underfed, hurt, and ridiculed man of the people in the institution. Lennie’s disability was that he had a mind of a third grader. He always wanted to touch nice things or have this or that. Throughout the whole book Lennie isn’t directly ridiculed but is ridiculed nonetheless. All these add in to the reason of Lennie’s

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.

One of the main reasons that we feel sympathy for Lennie is because he is intellectually disabled. He hasn’t the ability to learn or remember much, he cannot live independently, he needs to have someone to look after him and make sure he doesn’t step out of line or get in to trouble, this person happens to be George, we feel sympathy for him for having Lennie tied to him, Lennie also feels Sympathy for George and cannot bear to see George angry at him, George says to Lennie in the first chapter “god a’ mighty, if I was alone I could live so easily. I could get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at al, an when the end of the month come I could take my fifty buck and go into town and get whatever I want” and Lennie says” George if you want I should go away and leave you alone “ which tells us that he also feels sorry for George.

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