Lennie Character Analysis

Lennie is a bear of a man that does not know his left from his right. He does as George tells him to do yet he tries to put his own spin on it in his own way. At every turn or wherever he goes he wants to here about his dream of tending to the rabbits on a farm. Even though George does all of lennie’s thinking, lennie knows what he wants in the end. Lennie could not function without George, even though lennie could not understand my thing George said, George would have not gotten by without lennie there to talk to or look after because it gave him a purpose to living life. Therefore, Lennie can live out his dream if his lack of sensibility and or his strength do not get in the way.
Everyone that has read the book knows that the only things lennie cares about is his rabbits and trying to listen to George. Lennie mostly cares about his dream, he really grasps the idea of the average man trying to get what they want. Even though, he does not know what is really going on he just suffers through it to get to the rabbits. Lennie knows about the rabbits but he likes to hear it from
His strength helped him get the jobs with George, strength is the only reason lennie gets anywhere in life. In the first part of the the book it basically tells you that, Lennie is strong and stupid by saying he had a mouse in his pocket with a broken neck from being pet to hard: “Lennie looked sadly up at him. ‘They was so little,’ he said apologetically. ‘I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead—because they was so little. I wish’t we’d get the rabbits pretty soon, George. They ain’t so little.’(Steinbeck 10 )”.Strength helped him get the job at the farm and win the fight with Curley where he shattered curley’s hand. Strength also helped him kill a puppy and curley’s wife. Pretty much his strength alone helped ruin curley’s life. It did not help that curley had it out for