What Does Slim Have That Lennie Wants (2023)

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What Does Slim Have That Lennie Wants? ›

What does Slim have that Lennie wants? Slim's dog has just had a litter of puppies. Lennie wants one.

Lennie wants George to ask Slim to give him one of the young pups for Lennie to raise as his own.

Slim gives a puppy to Lennie (see pp. 40, 46–7). Slim agrees that Candy's dog must be killed (see pp. 49–50).

Slim gives Lennie one of his pups. It has to stay in the barn with its mom until it gets bigger, but Lennie tries to sneak it out.

Carlson asks about Slim's dog, which has just given birth to nine puppies. Slim reports that he drowned four of the puppies immediately because their mother would have been unable to feed them. Carlson suggests that they convince Candy to shoot his old, worthless mutt and raise one of the pups instead.

Slim, for example, is the sensitive, compassionate man whose word is law. Everyone respects him, and he seems to be the only one who is capable of understanding why George and Lennie travel together. Carlson, however, lovingly cleans his gun and is animalistic and insensitive.

All he wants is for George to be nice to him, and to pet soft things. And about that obsession with soft things: Lennie just can't keep his hands to himself.

At the end of the workday, Slim and George return to the bunkhouse. Slim has agreed to give one of the pups to Lennie, and George thanks him for his kindness, insisting that Lennie is “dumb as hell,” but is neither crazy nor mean.

Early in the novella, George promises Lennie that he will get him a puppy if he gets the chance, saying the puppy would be “better than mice.” So, when Lennie and George overhear Slim talking about his dog's new litter, Lennie immediately perks up and excitedly asks George to talk to Slim about giving him a “brown and ...

Lennie wants to hear about that piece of land they are going to get, and the rabbits for him to tend. George tells him, and when the men are nearly there, George shoots Lennie in the head.

What did slim do of mice and men? ›

Slim is the jerkline skinner, or the head mule driver, on the ranch. He is a static character throughout the novel, not changing over the course of the events, and is always quiet, strong, and kind, offering helpful advice and mediation.

Slim. A quiet, observant man, Slim is portrayed as the true authority figure on the ranch. While the other workers listen to the boss and Curley because they have to, they listen to Slim because they respect him as a worker and as a person.

He is also kind and respectful to all of the disliked characters in the book: He treats Crooks with total sympathy and gives Curley's wife the respect she deserves and so sorely wants.

Slim is also the only one to rightly understand that George kills Lennie out of mercy, and comforts George in his resulting misery.

Because George observes first-hand the misunderstanding in Weed, he can be sure that Lennie is not guilty of deliberately murdering Curley's wife (and so can the reader). Why does Carlson shoot Candy's dog? Carlson shoots Candy's dog because it is old, sick, and no longer able to work as a sheep dog.

Taking Curley to a doctor, Slim gets Curley's promise to say his hand got caught in a machine so Lennie and George won't get fired. Lennie is afraid he has done "a bad thing" and that George won't let him tend the rabbits. But George explains that Lennie did not mean to hurt Curley and that he isn't in trouble.

Lesson Summary. Slim is a character in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. The novel is set during the Great Depression in the west of the United States on a ranch. Slim's job is the position of jerkline skinner, meaning he is the lead mule line driver, controlling as many as twenty mules with a single line.

Slim is described with high authority and respect with strong and tall postures. During Slim's pen-portrait, slim is emphasized as “his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought”, and that “his authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love”.

He treats George and Lennie very kindly and fairly. His opinion about their friendship is pretty nice. He understands that two men stick together and are always there for each other.

At the end of chapter 2, Lennie is as excited as a little child about Slim's puppies. Lennie wants George to ask Slim if he can have a brown and white puppy.