“Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers…”

Sentence Starter- This quote shows that Lennie is childish because...

Lennie is a large man but is mentally disabled and acts like a child in Of Mice and Men.

Explanation:

His hand is compared to a "big paw" because he walks slow and drags his feet like a bear.  A child or bear cub would dabble their paw/hand in the water, then wiggle his fingers, not an adult.

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the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.