Of Mice and Men- Lennie

Lennie Small

Key Characteristics:

• Loves to pet soft things
• Devoted to George
• Incredibly strong
• One dimensional
• Helpless

Key Points:

• Compared to the other main characters in the novella Lennie undergoes no change, as at the start he and George we running from a problem Lennie had caused by accident. Readers are able to see this was to happen due to the use of foreshadowing throughout the novella.
•  The ending is inevitable.
• Steinbeck presents Lennie as a helpless, defenceless, innocent child that can't deal with the state of the world currently and so is taken advantage of by others.
• Throughout…