1. Lennie Small Of Mice and Men By Brad Palmer

2. His Behaviour Lennie’s child-like behaviour is frequent in the book e.g. when he stays in the barn with the puppies and doesn’t recognize the consequence of taking the puppies from their mother. When he cries when Curley starts to beat him (of course eventually he fights back, but only at George’s urging), or in the very commencement when George throws the mouse across the river and Lennie tries to sneak over and get it, not thinking George would hear him splashing through the water also the repetitiveness of when he says he wants to pet the rabbits. He always asks George to mention how he tends the rabbits this reassures him that he will be happy soon. Lennie Small

3. His Appearance “A huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.” Lennie is compared to animals – perhaps because he’s quite stupid but also strong. “dabbled his big paw in the water”. “dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws”. “Lennie continued to snort into the pool”. Lennie is intimidating because he is huge.

4. Key things he says The things he says the most is; “let me ten’ them rabbits”. He likes to ask George about the dream because it gives them a bit of hope. And when he does something wrong his words after are “I di’n’t mean no harm, George”. Because he doesn’t mean to, he just cant control is strength e.g. when he kills the pup.

5. His purpose in the book He’s in the book to show traits of other characters like Curley’s anger and George’s kind nature. Also he shows a ranch worker in the 1930’s depression in America, not intelligent and shows how there dreams get shattered.

6. How steinbeck portrays him. Steinbeck shows that in the 1930s in America there was no help for Lennie like social services, schools and there is no rights that he has to stay on ranch because bosses can ‘can’ them whenever they want.

7. The significance of his name Lennie ‘small’ has irony in it because small is the opposite to him, his appearance. This shows Steinbeck having a joke.

8. Their Dream Their dream is the one of the most important aspects of the book because in society in America at that time most ranch workers had a dream but the majority of the dreams they have didn’t succeed. The dream Lennie had, “ was to live off the fatta the lan’” and get some rabbits to tend. Having the dream helped to connect with candy because he wanted to join them.

9. Key Events The major event that he is in when he kills Curley’s wife this reflected back at weed when he scared the woman there. He kills his pup that he gets off slim he is scared that George wont let him tend the rabbits in the dream. Also when he crushes Curley’s hand because curley started punching him.

10. The End :D