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Lennie Terrible Memory
Because Lennie has terrible memory George has to remind him many times on what they’ve done and talked about in the past. Lennie can only remember bits and pieces of information and struggles to put all of it together because in chapter one, Lennie says ‘’’why sure George, I remember that...but… what’d we do then? I remember some girls come by and you says...you say…’’’(Steinbeck 5). Lennie also forgot where they were going and George has to remind him ‘’’Where we goin’, George?’’ and George replied ‘’So you forgot awready did you? I gotta tell you again, do I?...’’’(4). These quotes support the claim above because they are examples of Lennie having terrible memory.

Lennie is a character from the book ‘’Of Mice and Men’’ and can remember

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