Who is Lennart (Lenny) Thorsson from For the Sake of Elena and what is their importance? For_the_Sake_of_Elena English & Literature Lennart (Lenny) Thorsson | For the Sake of Elena

Lennart Thorsson, a Swede, is a Shakespearean scholar and a don at Cambridge. Thorsson is in his mid-thirties and has thick, shoulder-length strawberry-blond hair. He wears a "drooping mustache that [curves] round his mouth in a style that [befits] the early 1970s" (pg. 115.) Thorsson's female undergraduate students find him attractive and it is revealed in the narrative that he has had at least one affair with a student.