Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Of Mice and Men has always had a bad vibe towards it, that is because the problems that are presented in the book are still relevant modern America.. John Steinbeck's masterpiece shows a world where the simplest dream can be extremely hard to achieve. Steinbeck shows that the 1930s is a place in time that cannot even be imagined in this modern time. The novella shows how the character deals with the feeling of uncertainty, loneliness , and how each character has their way of dealing with it. Every character has their only and well defined personality, some will have good morals and others will have bad morals. Characters will be victims or villains and some may even be both, one must understand the difference. One person that stands out is Lennie, Lennie is a person who has a mental disability, he is trapped in a horrible nightmare that can get deadly quickly. Lennie is a victim because of his mental disability, George is his only family member, and people like to mess with him. Lennie is a victim and the first reason for that is because of his mental disability. As stated before Lennie lives with the challenge of

Because Lennie has a mental disability, he doesn’t know that they’re making fun of him. One key time was when Crooks said to Lennie, “S’pose George don’t come back no more. S’pose he took a powder and just ain’t coming back. What’ll you do then”.(71) Crooks wants teasing Lennie and scaring him for fun. Crooks wanted Lennie to be helpless and feel like him and that he’s the only african american. Another time in which this happens is when Curley is attacking a scared Lennie. As Curley is swinging at Lennie, Lennie tells George, “Make ‘um stop George”.(63) The whole fight had started because everyone expect Lennie was making fun of Curley so how does that work. As Curley is hitting Lennie with wrath of God, Lennie is scared to the point of