Lennie Monologue

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The first memento that I chose for Lennie is a drawing of a rabbit. I feel like he would have this in his box since he is repeatedly asking George to tell him about how he will tend the rabbits when they get their own land. It always comes back to George telling Lennie about the rabbits. Whether it be to comfort Lennie, or because they have nothing else to do, some textual evidence is when George was trying to convince Lennie that he wanted him to stay. “Lennie spoke craftily,” Tell me – like you done before.” “Tell you what?” “About the rabbits” (Steinbeck 13) Lennie is trying to use George’s guilt trip to get him to tell him about the rabbits. Which shows that he is always asking about the rabbits; this shows why he would keep a drawing of a rabbit in his box. …show more content…
I believe that Lennie would never do anything to hurt anyone on purpose, unless George told him to. This shows that he is typically a clumsy person. He doesn’t think before he does anything, and he doesn’t think about the consequences whenever he does something “wrong”. “Trouble with mice is you always kill ‘em.” He paused. “Tell you what I’ll do. Lennie, first chance I get I’ll get you a pup. Maybe wouldn’t kill it.” (Steinbeck 13) George knows that Lennie only kills things on accident, but still, he knows Lennie can be clumsy most of the time.

For my third memento I believe that Lennie would have a diary. It would just be another way to show that he still has a childish mentality. When he first got his new puppy from Slim, he wanted to keep it with himself at all times. When George caught him he begged him to give it back like a child would for a toy that they wanted at the store. “Give ‘um to me, George. I’ll take ‘um back. I didn’t mean no harm George. Honest, I didn’t. I jus’ wanted to pet ‘um a little.” (Steinbeck 43.) This shows how childish Lennie can be
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