Sympathy is feeling pity or sorry for someone based on their mental abilities or how people acts and how people is treated that’s what sympathy is, and this is what happened in the OMAM book. In the novel Lennie is the most sympathetic character in Of Mice and Man because he has mental problems and he forget things easily because of his disability and always George gives instructions to Lennie, because always he talks they get in trouble then Lennie is treated badly by him, Lennie cannot follow directions and he dies, he is the most sympathetic character because he is treated badly because he does so many things that are wrong for him but he can’t understand because of his disability and he is slow this is why he is the most sympathetic …show more content…
He says “Yeah you forgot. You always forget and I got to talk you out of it”(23). Then the audience can infer why George got mad because Lennie always forget and George has to repeat the same thing so many times and then that’s why George is kind of mean with him because of that. Another part when Lennie cannot follow directions is when they are talking with Curley, and Curley wanted Lennie to talk and he didn't answer until the end. He says “Next time you answer when you're spoke to”(26). Then the audience can infer that he didn't want to talk, but it's not like that because George told Lennie to not say a word and let him do the talking because when Lennie talks they get in trouble because of his disability. Also another part when Lennie cannot follow directions is when George was telling Lennie don't take a look in Curley’s wife because they know she can get them in trouble. He says “Well. You keep away from her”(32). Then we can infer that Lennie didn't understand what George was trying to tell him because George already knew like what she what's trying to do that's why George told him because he's slow and his disability can't think like that, that is why Lennie is the most sympathetic character in the