Lennie Flashcards
“Come on George. Tell me. Please, George. Like you done before.”
Lennie delights in his and George’s dream of a small farm, like a child with a favourite, familiar story,
“[Lennie] can put up more grain alone than most pairs can.”
Lennie is incredibly strong and George sees it as an asset in their work.
“He was so scairt he couldn’t let go of that dress. And he’s so damn strong, you know.”
Tells us that Lennie hangs on and uses his strength when he is scared.
“Sure he’s jes’like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong.”
Emphasises Lennie’s childlike simplicity and his strength.
“I didn’t want no trouble.”
Lennie doesn’t mean to do harm. He just doesn’t realise his own strength.”
“Me an’ him goes ever’ place together.”
Lennie is totally dependent on George.
“Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard.”
Lennie blames the animals he kills for their own death, because they are ‘tiny’, unwilling to blame himself.
“I done a real bad thing,’ he said, ‘I shouldn’t have did that, George’ll be mad.”
Lennie reveals that he cannot control himself, and he has no moral judgement. Things are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to Lennie depending on what George will think of them.
