Summary:
Explores the novel, "Of mice and men," by John Steinbeck. Analyzes the character Lennie Small. Considers how the character undergoes no significant changes, development, or growth throughout the novel and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages.
John Steinbeck creates a very complex and acute character in Lennie Small. Although Lennie is among the principal characters in Of Mice and Men, he is perhaps the least dynamic. He undergoes no significant changes, development, or growth throughout the novel and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages. Through out the whole novel Lennie is a big, strong man with rounded features; his behaviour is very childlike and naive. He is very forgetful, absent-minded, and one-dimensional. Nearly every scene in which Lennie appears confirms these and only these characteristics. However it is exactly these unvarying features that effect and change the other characters, mainly George Milton and to a lesser extent Candy, Crooks, Slim and of course Curley and his wife. Although devoid of cruel intentions, Lennie's stupidity and carelessness cause.....
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