Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. ... This allusion of Lennie to a bear reinforces the common sentiment among the characters that he is more akin to an animal, with more brawns than brainpower. The allusion to an animal hence becomes one of Lennie's major character traits and thus it is crucial for the narrator to depict Lennie as such in his introduction. ...

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