Lennie Small Character Analysis

In 1937 John Steinbeck writes the book Of Mice and Men. He creates two characters named George Milton and Lennie Small. These two guys travel around the state of California looking for jobs. They run away from their last job and are on their way to their next job but they got kicked off the bus. Then the two of them have to stay the night by a pond and head to the new job in the morning. The character Lennie Small is one character that the reader can get to know a lot. As the story goes on, there is a lot of trouble that associates with Lennie. In the book the reader gets to learn that the character Lennie is very strong but he has some issues in the head. In the first chapter of the book Of Mice and Men the reader gets to learn that Lennie sort of acts like a child. While George and Lennie are at the pond Lennie finds a little pet but George does not want him to keep it. Then George took the mouse from Lennie and threw it across the pond. In chapter one Steinbeck says, “He heard Lennie’s whimpering cry and wheeled about” (Steinbeck 9).
Lennie not being strong mentally means that he is not very bright in the head. At the beginning of chapter five Lennie kills a puppy and blames the puppy for dying. In the middle of the chapter Curley’s wife comes in and starts talking to Lennie. Curley’s wife then ask Lennie to touch her and he does but things go wrong. As Steinbeck explains in the text, “And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck” (Steinbeck 91). Lennie was trying to keep Curley’s wife quiet because she was screaming while Lennie was grabbing her hair. As he was shaking her he snapped her neck because he was shaking her head. And he was not thinking that he was going to kill her. However, Lennie’s lack of knowledge could make up for his incredible strength. Overall Lennie is a strong man but not so strong in the