Lennie is compared to animals throughout the novel. Lennie is compared to an animal in many different situations he is compared to a bear and a horse in the beginning when he is drinking water from the pool and when he is dropping his bindle stiff on the ground. He is compared to a bear when fighting Curley and he is compared to a dog that doesn’t want to drop a ball when he doesn’t want to give up his dead mouse. I get the sense that Lennie is a large, clumsy man who listens to George, even if sometimes he doesn’t want too. The animals in this book are not treated particularly badly but yet they are looked at as inferiors. They would never shoot a person but yet they shot a dog which tells me that there are definitely different levels of social
