Sympathy for Lennie

Question 0

At the ranch

Quotes about presentation of Lennie and sympathy is given

Answer 0

“Get ‘im Lennie!”
- When George orders Lennie to do this and Lennie obeys shows how he is presented with a mind like a soldier obeying his commander
“ Lennie gave a cry of terror”
- When Curley raged at Lennie for no reason, he punched Lennie so many times that (quote). Sympathy is shown because he is defenseless

Question 1

Before arriving to the ranch

Quotes of Lennies presentation and sympathy given

Answer 1

“drank with long gulps,snorting into the water like a horse”
- He is described not as a human being but as an animal
“ I could get along nice and easy if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl
- quote shows how Lennie is a useless person and burden to Geogre because the fact that George can’t live ‘easily’ with him
“A huge man, shapeless face with large, pale eyes with wide sloping shoulders”
- This is how Lennie is firstly presented
“ dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws”
- Sympathy is given because Lennie is compared to an animal

Question 2

At the end

Sympathy and presentation

Answer 2

“Let’s do it. Let’s get that place now”

• show how’s he is still not getting the situation (idiot)
• Sympathy is shown cuz he doesn’t know what’s happening because he is dreaming about getting the place but he doesn’t know that he’s about to meet his fate, death