Slim

Slim is the jerkline skinner (lead mule-team driver) at the ranch. He is excellent at his job.
He is the natural leader at the ranch. Everyone respects his views and looks up to him.
He has a quiet dignity: he doesn't need to assert himself to have authority.
"there was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talked stopped when he spoke. His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love."
He understands the relationship between George and Lennie. He helps George at the end and reassures George that he did the right thing.
We know little else about him, which gives him a slightly mysterious quality. Do you think he is too good to be true?

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