Lennie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Of Mice and Men Character Analysis Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, focuses on the lives of the protagonists’ Lennie Small and George Milton who are migrant workers during the Great Depression. Through Lennie’s character and the way he handles situations, the reader learns that Lennie has a mild mental disability and that George wants to help contain Lennie’s wild five year-old thoughts. George comes up with a dream of buying their own place, farming it, and letting Lennie tend rabbits. But before they are able to pay for their dream they have to work hard. They report to a ranch in Soledad, to start their making. When arriving on the ranch, it is evident that it is hard for Lennie to be able to communicate with other workers without George interfering and helping him. But it was not until he meets Crooks, that Lennie is able to have an actual …show more content…
He pulled out his shirt in back, poured a little liniment in his hand…and slowly started rubbing his back” (83). The end of chapter four appears to the reader repetition of mistakes. This quote shows that his understandable fears and struggles about how people view him as a black man is no longer visible past the prejudice that he has always experienced. This idea was confirmed when Crooks stated, “I didn’ mean it. Jus’ foolin’. I wouldn’ want to go no place like that” (83). When Curley’s wife said that he could be lynched or even worse, Crooks’ fear got the best of him and thought that joining their dream was not going to be any different because Crooks will always be a black man. In Of Mice and Men, Crooks undergoes many struggles but never changes his ways. In the beginning Crooks tells stories of racism he had to go through as a child, and those stories multiplied as he grew older. All of the conflicts that Crooks is facing all goes back into him being a colored man with a cripple