1. Of Mice and Men Character Analysis Presentation
By Ms. Verge

2. Directions
Analyze your assigned character by finding two quotes each. Blend/integrate the quote and include the page number and then connect the quote to one of the following themes:
The Futility of the American Dream
The need for friendship
The need for dreams
The pain of loneliness

3. Lennie Small
Lennie are George are foil for each other. Lennie’s huge size and limited intelligence contrast George’s smaller size and sharper personality.

4. Lennie Small
Lennie’s strength so overpowered Curley that Curley looked “like a fish on a line” with his “fist lost in Lennie’s paw”(page ) by A. Verge
The author John Steinbeck uses animal imagery to convey Lennie’s strength and simple, animal-like instincts.

5. Like a big bear, “Lennie dabbled his paw in the water”(page 2).
Lennie Small
Like a big bear, “Lennie dabbled his paw in the water”(page 2).

6. Lennie Small by A. Verge
Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie’s troubles early in the novel when Lennie has “broken [the mouse] pettin’ it” (page ).