Lennie Small is a very complex character, although he may not appear to be at first glance. One of Lennie’s biggest concerns is for continued love (friendship) from George. He does not really have to worry about this though, for as George is so fond of saying, “…We have a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us… (at this point Lennie interrupts) Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look

A great way to judge Lennie’s significance is to predict what life would have been like for others had he never existed. For starters, had Lennie not been around, George’s dream of owning his own farm probably wouldn’t have existed, losing a major portion of the book in the process. As George told Slim at the end of the book, “I think I knowed we’d never do her (own the land). He (Lennie) usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.” (Stein beck, 103) If George mainly believed in the dream because he had told Lennie about it so much, what would have happened had Lennie not been there? Another huge impact Lennie had on many people’s lives was Curley’s wife’s death. When Lennie accidentally killed her, he not only had the obvious impacts on Curley (and his wife), but also on all the people that lived on the farm. Probably the most important of these is the guilt that George now had to bear of killing his best friend. If Lennie had never existed, everyone’s lives would have been drastically different.

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