Albert's English Journal

“Why ain’t you wanted?” Lennie ask.
“Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well I tell you, you all stink to me.” – page 75
In this quote from crooks he says the reason why he’s never wanted and why he’s treated so bad. He probably says it with built up rage over the time he was treated poorly. He then says “well I tell you, you all stink to me.” What he’s trying to say here is that the white people stink, saying it as a payback, standing up for himself with all that rage, depression building up and waiting to let it out.

Lennie

Lennie, George’s friend is basically a tall, kind and simple person.
“The rabbits we’re gonna get and I, i get to ten ’em” this quotation from Lennie pretty much sums up how he’s a simple/nice person, he’s a grown man who wants to tend rabbits like a child would want to do.
Lennie: “She’s pretty.”
George: “Lennie! Listen to me, God damn it! Don’t you even look at her! I don’t care what she says or what she does, she’s a rat trap if I ever seen one.” This one conversation between lennie and george shows that lennie is simple. He has no idea that curleys wife is bad news and he was already complimenting her so he would most likely get into trouble if curleys wife flirts with him.
The purpose with lennie’s character is that it was hard for people with mental problems to go through life back in old days because back then most people wasn’t understanding and the bad people would have a problem with people with mental problems just like Curley did.