Lennie's Power

“You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not talking to anybody?”(87). Like Curleys wife other characters have power but at the same time they are powerless all in there own ways. Lennie, George, and Curleys wife have their powerful moments but they also can be very powerless at times. Lennie doesn’t have have much mental power but he is very physically powerful. He is very strong and the book tells the readers that in the beginning by saying how he kills his mice by petting them too hard. Lennie is a big guy and he has a lot of strength and that hurts him because it gets him into a lot of trouble like when he shattered curleys hand or when he killed his puppy then killed
Lennie’s power is his strength but Georges power is his mind/wits. George is able to talk his way out of sticky situations and get what he needs and what he wants for both him and Lennie. George has to help Lennie through life and think of backup plans in case Lennie gets in trouble and they have to quickly get out of town and find a new job which is hard to do during the great depression but George is smart enough to get a job for both him and Lennie. Georges wits sometimes get people skeptical of him because he thinks things through before they happen and he’s so quick to answer some things. The boss and curley were skeptical of him because he wouldn’t let Lennie talk because he didn’t want him saying anything wrong so the boss thought George was trying to steal lennie’s money. “Then why don’t you let him answer? What you trying to put over?”(22). Curley got mad at George for not letting Lennie stand up for himself so he could fight Lennie but George insisted on talking for Lennie so curley wanted to fight Lennie more than he originally wanted to so he fought Lennie and almost got Lennie and George in trouble. But they didn’t get in trouble because George and the others but mainly George talked/threatened Curley out of telling his dad who is the boss and getting them fired from yet another job. Due to Georges thinking ahead they had a game plan if Lennie got in trouble again which he did and Lennie knew where to hide and what to do. Georges quick thinking made it so he didn’t get in trouble for curleys wifes death and he was the one who got to kill Lennie instead of curley or the others who would’ve shot him in the gut so he would die slow and painfully. But thanks to George he died listening about the story of their future which is Lennie’s favorite story and he died painlessly because George shot him in the back of the head. So George helped himself and Lennie a lot by using his mental power even though it