Character Analysis Of Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a story that revolves around George and Lennie life. Since Lennie likes to touch velvet like thing, he had grabbed a girl dress causing her to scream rape. This resulted in George and Lennie get chased out of their town, Weed, and having to find a new job. During their time working on a ranch in Soledad, Lennie had encountered some problems. For example, Lennie had accidently killed his puppy and also on the same day he killed Curley's wife. Lennie is a childlike big guy who cannot control his strength, but at the same time he has an affection of touching anything soft. Lennie characteristics are childlike and a massive guy that does not know how to restrain his strength. The reason behind Lennie's naive behavior is because he is mentally challenged. He cannot think on his own and also understand what is happening around him. Therefore, causing Lennie to get into trouble even though he does not mean to. Besides being naive, Lennie enjoys petting soft velvet-like objects. Petting those
Lennie wanted to touch it because it was soft. “Jus' wanted to feel that girl's dress--jus' wanted to pet it like it was a mouse-- Well, how the hell did she know you jus' wanted to feel her dress?”(10). Lennie did not think of the consequences when he grabbed that girl dress. This prompted the girl to scream and causing Lennie to grab her dress harder. Being startled from the screaming, Lennie did not know how to react because he could not process what is happening. The aftereffect Lennie action caused both of them to be chasing out of Weed. On the way to Soledad, Lennie kept a dead mouse in his pocket. He would occasionally pet the mouse with his thumb. “I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead.”(9). Lennie does not know how hard he had pinched the mouse causing each mouse he had to