Lennie Small

Lennie Small

1. Section 1

   • Quotations
     • " Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. "
       • "The way a bear drags his paws " this animalistic imagery conveys his streangth
       • He lumbers along
       • Mentally challenged
     • " His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse. The small man stepped nervously beside him."
       • "Like a horse" an animalistic simile
       • "The small man stepped nervously beside him." shows that George cares for Lennie,
     • " Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly."
       • Shows Lennie looks up to George and trusts him.
       • Childlike
     • " But Lennie made an elaborate pantomine of innocence. 'what mouse, George? I ain't got no mouse.' "
       • Shows that Lennie can be quite manipulative and devious when he wants to.
     • " I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead - because they were so little
       • Plural
       • Foreshadowing - Killed because they were so small and defenceless
     • "Jus' wanted to feel that girl's dress - jus' wanted to pet it like it was a mouse. "
       • Foreshadowing
       • Danger
       • Lennie does not know what he did wrong
     • " Because... because i got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."
       • They both know that they have each other to look after them
     • "And live of the fatta' the lan'."
       • The dream
       • Very simple

2. Section 2

   • Quotations
     • " Lennie ain't handy, but this Curley punk is gonna get hurt, if he messes around with Lennie."
       • "gonna get hurt." - inevitable
       • Lennie doesn't know how to fight
     • "Lennie don't know no rules."
       • Could only assume the worst
     • "I never meant no harm, George."
       • Childlike
     • "i don' like this place, George. This ain't no good place. I wanna get outta here.
       • Foreshadowing