Lennie Small, tender heart and hands of steel

As with the Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck plunges us into the depths of the American Dream lentre-war, with its marginal and fates faded by the Great Depression. California, symbol of the dream, is not exactly the promised land for those characters who try dy survive somehow. Although relatively short, the story forcefully imposes the character of Lennie, simpleton giant killer innocently everything you would cherish. If his grip dacier than offsets his intellectual deficiencies in the work force, it is also a curse for the man-child who finally arouse in the reader a kind of compassion despite his monstrous side. The other characters also have a well-drawn character. George, his course mate, but Slim Candy Crooks

The outcome is terrible, although from the beginning of history, one could suspect that it would end this book is the time dune testimony and indirectly a denunciation of the living conditions dune section of the US population. How can we blame indeed to Lennie, clearly inadequate to the real world because of his disability and transformed into a monster by a company which left him the choice: to be delivered to him or finish vegetable in an institution daliénés?