Lennie Symbol

Lennie is a tall, mentally challenged, and very strong man, so strong that he crushed every bone in man’s hand with one hand. But being so strong is sort of a disability to him because of his strong hands. Now Lennie loves to pet soft things but being that he is so strong mostly everything he pets he kills.

Lennie had a puppy that he just couldn’t put down. He took this puppy everywhere he went even though George told him not to take him from his mother because of its young age. He didn’t listen to George the first couple times and try to take the puppy to his bedroom. So to get Lennie to listen to him and behave George threatened to not let Lennie fulfill his dream in tending the rabbits. Later one day Lennie was in the shaft playing with the puppy and once again his strong hands proved fatal, killing the puppy leaving Lennie to say I didn’t mean to, I did a bad bad thing.

Throughout the stay at the ranch Lennie crushed a man’s hand, killed a puppy, and you would think that this would be all, no. Lennie had to go out with a bang, right like always. Later one afternoon during a horse shoe tournament outside Lennie was inside the shaft mourning the death of his puppy. Soon afterwards Curley’s wife came inside, but let me get straight to the point. She let him pet her soft hear, he wouldn’t let go, she screamed, and he snapped her neck killing her. This infuriated Curley and the men on the ranch and the search was on to kill Lennie who already left on foot to the hideout him and George had. Soon after George found Lennie before the other men could and shot him in the head because he didn’t want another man to kill his friend.

In conclusion Lennie was just a troublemaker everywhere he went even though he tried to keep the peace, but it wasn’t working for him, he just was to strong for his own good. Eventually someone was going to kill him whether it was George or another man so it was for the best when Lennie was shot and murdered, he would’ve understood.