Lennie is at the best a dim witted character but he has a good heart. Lennie doesn’t know what is right and panics. He is a big man and sometimes hurts animals and people by accident. Even though lennie is a huge man has the ideology and brain of a 8 year old. Other characters like george and candy know how he is a good person but they still call him dumb and stupid. It is his stupidity that drives the plot towards the conclusion. Lennie has a hard time remembering things and freaks out during stress. This is why when his aunt clara gives him mice to pet he always accidently kills them. Lennie likes to touch soft things which is what drove them out of there last job. He saw someone's skirt and wanted to touch the skirt, the woman started yelling
