He's a massive moron with a murderous streak against puppies and mice who's dream is to own land with his buddy, George, so he, the massive moron, can tend to the rabbits. Okay slight exaggeration and by the way his name is Lenny. Lenny is a massive moron ,but he doesn't mean to hurt all the animals, but his strength out weighs his kind soul. In John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", a historical fiction novella, John Steinbeck brings to life Lenny and his "American Dream".
Lenny's "American Dream" is to own a piece of land with a house with George and to tend to the rabbits. It seems that no matter who he's talking to or where he is, rabbits and the dream are always on the brain. He talked to Crooks about it and even to the "seductive" wife of Curly. All he wanted was to own that land with rabbits with George.
"Lenny you don't know a damn thing, but you every word I say." George says this to Lenny through the story. It shows that Lenny's "American Dream" is what may keep going and from giving up like lots of others in the story who travel alone and don't seem to trust anyone. George was the only one who had stuck around with Lenny. Even when Lenny messed up, George was there to get him out of trouble. It made Lenny want to do this to, maybe help pay back George for all the trouble he had cause over the years and the most recent accident when a woman yelled RAPE because Lenny touched her dress and held on. As George said, "He's so damn stupid all he could think do was hold on."
Trouble lingered around for Lenny. As sweet as he was his strength got him and George back into trouble after he accidentally kills Curly's wife. The "American Dream" not only shaped his life, but his death as well. After Lenny accidentally kills Curly's wife, he did as George said and went back to their place. George had Lenny think on their dream as he shot Lenny in the back of the head, before Curly and the other's came after Lenny and did worse.
Lenny's American Dream shaped his life and his death. It was all he wanted in life and the last thing he thought of as he died by George's hand.
