Of Mice And Men: Lennie Flashcards
Suggest Lennie’s size and strength, bust also that he is simple and animal like.
A huge man, shapless face… He walked the way a bear drags it paws.
Lennie may be childlike and innocent, but he knows how to make George feel guilt.
An’ I won’t get no mice stole from me.
Lennie delights in his and George’s dream of a small farm. Like a child would with a story.
Come on George. tell me. please, George. like you done before.
Lenny is incredibly strong and George sees it as an asset in their work.
Lennie can put up kore grain alone then most pairs.
Tells us that Lennie hangs on and uses his strength when he is scared.
He was so scairt he can let go of that dress. And he is so dam strong, you know.
Emphasis Lennie’s childlike simplicity and his strength.
Sure hes jes’like a kid neither, except hes strong.
Lennie doesnt mean to do no harm. He just doesnt relise his own strength.
I didnt want no trouble
Lennie is totally dependant on George.
Mean an’ him goes ever’ place together.
Lennie blame the animals he kills for there own death. They are small and he is unwilling to blame him self.
Why do you got to get killed, you ain’t so little as mice. i didn’t bouce you hard
Lennie reveals that he cannot control, himself, amd he has no moral judgement. things are good to bad to Lennie depending on what George will think of them.
I done a real bad thing, he said. I shouldn’t have did that. george’ll be mad.
Lennie is looked at as one of the kinder people.
A nice fella
A potentially dangerous animal
The way a bear drags his paws
Who is Lennie?
- Worker like George.
- Childs mind and a mans body.
- While his mind is childlike he is strong.
- He is a simpleton and his tragedy is that his mind can t control his actions.
Compared to a child
He’s jus like a kid.
Purpose of Lennie in the novel?
- George traveling companion.
- makes George tell the story of dream.
- Lennie picked on by bosses son
- Curley picks a fight with Lennie but is beaten.
- gets angry with Crooks
- kills the puppy
- kills Curley’s wife
- shot by George.
