LENNIE

LENNIE

1. very strong+powerful

   • "strong as a bull"
   • good worker

2. mentally like a child

   • "he's jes' like a kid"

3. like an animal: "lennie covered his face with huge paws and bleated with terror".

   • "the way bear drags his paws"
   • like a terrier who doesn't want to bring a ball back to his master"

4. relies on George in both body and mind

   • george-brain
   • lennie- strength

5. lennies violence gets worse throughout novel

   • 1.mice
   • curley's hand
   • puppy
   • curley's wife

6. lennies fear turns to anger

7. sympathy for lennie- doesn't want to cause pain, can't control his own strength

8. slim says he can see that lennie "ain't a bit mean". slim's the wisest and most trusted character, so reader is likely to agree