Almost every tHing YOu need to know about of mice and men can be seen through two things one being the way the characters look the other being how people react to them you can see this through the descriptive language used around the characters for example Lennie is often refereed to in the book as an animal for example “Lennie covered his face with his huge paws and bleatied with terror” this tells us a lot about him it links to his simple nature because animals are genraly less smart than humans also to him bieng quite big this could also link to the for shadowing element in the book this is one way in which you can understand them .

Another way in which you can understand is how people talk about Lennie