Of Mice and Men

Is this quote a good example of diction to show that Lennie did not intentionally kill Curley's wife?

"She struggled violently under his hands. Her feet battered on the hay an she writhed to be free; and from under Lennie's hand came a muffled screaming. Lennie began to cry with fright. "Oh! Please don't do none of that," he begged. "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonns let me tend no rabbits" (Steinbeck 91).

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Steinbeck has some of the best diction in fiction. Yes, this connects the reader with the idea that Lennie had little understanding of what what he did and why he did it.