Imagery In Of Mice And Men
In the novel Of Mice and Men by John steinbeck, the author uses tone and imagery to characterize Lennie as Immature and foolish. At times Lennie feels guilty for the things he says because George puts him down. For example, Lennie once said the beans they were cooking by the fire would taste better with ketchup. George replied by saying they didn’t have ketchup. For George this was his last straw, he got angry and blew up on Lennie. Obviously Lennie felt bad after George yelled at him and replied with “I was just foolin’ George. I don’t want no ketchup if it was right here beside me”(12). In this quote Lennie apologizes although it wasn’t his fault in the first place. Do to his condition, which George is aware of, Lennie doesn’t say the most
logical things at times. The author set a guilty and apologetic tone top show how Lennie feels. However, later on the author uses imagery to describe how Lennie looks. He says Lennie is “a huge man shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide sloping shoulders”(2). The author also describes the way he walks writing “he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paw”(2). Imagery is used so we can get a sense of what Lennie looks like and how that may have an effect on the story. Figurative language is also used to compare Lennie’s hand to a bear paw to symbolize how large it is. As seen by the quotes provided, the author uses a lot of tone and imagery to describe and characterize Lennie.
logical things at times. The author set a guilty and apologetic tone top show how Lennie feels. However, later on the author uses imagery to describe how Lennie looks. He says Lennie is “a huge man shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide sloping shoulders”(2). The author also describes the way he walks writing “he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paw”(2). Imagery is used so we can get a sense of what Lennie looks like and how that may have an effect on the story. Figurative language is also used to compare Lennie’s hand to a bear paw to symbolize how large it is. As seen by the quotes provided, the author uses a lot of tone and imagery to describe and characterize Lennie.