Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lennie
- Childlike
- Powerful man with huge hands
- Makes him a great farmer
- Grown up physically but
mentally he's like a child
- Innocent and asks a lot of
innocent questions
- Slim immediately
see's that Lennie
'ain't mean'
- Condition is never explained
- Called a 'dum-dum' and Curley's
wife and Slim think he's 'cuckoo'
- George denies he's insane
- Likes to stroke and pet soft
things (Curley's wife's hair)
- Like a child with a favourite
blanket/stuffed toy
- Identifies with Animals
- Looks like a bear
- Drags his feet 'the way a
bear drags his paws'
- Eats and drinks like
a hungry animal
- Very possessive over
his animals
- The mouse in Chapter One
- A bit like George's pet
- Relies on him for food
- Follows him around
- George treats Lennie like a pet
- Orders him around and
uses his strength to get
them jobs
- In the end he treats him like
Candy treat his god, shoots him in
the head for his own good
- Moments of Cleverness
- Knows George would feel guilty
about leaving him and uses this
to get his own way
- When George is unkind to him in
Chapter One he threatens to go and
find a cave
- After George persuades him not to he
uses this to his advantage to get
George to describe their 'Dream Farm'
- Sometimes seems intelligent
enough to realise how much
George sacrifices for him
- Killer
- Gentlest character and most destructive
- Dangerous and violent
- Attacks Curley and his wife
- Kills mice
- Throws his dead puppy across the barn
- Fear that makes Lennie
hold onto Curley's wife
- 'in a panic'
- He cries 'with fright'
- Lennie's fear tends to
turn into anger
- Steinbeck tells us twice Lennie is
'angry' with Curleys wife
- So angry he shakes
her to death
- Reader Feels Sorry for him
- Lennie isn't maicious
- George tells him to
'get' Curley
- Kills Curley' wife because he can't
control his own strength
- In Weed, Lennie
held on to the girl's
dress because
'that's the only
thing he can think
to do'
- Dependent on George in both
Body and Mind
- George has looked after him since his Aunt died
- Couldn't survive on his own
- He does have one practical skill
- He's a good worker
- Slim says 'There ain't
nobody can keep up
with him'
- Useful for George as it
helps them get work
- George has the brains, Lennie has the strength
- Good partnership