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Monday, May 2, 2011

The difficulties encountered because of Mental Disability

Mental disabilities limits and isolates Lennie the novel.


There are many times where Lennie is just left out from hanging out or doing things with the other men because they do not want anything from Lennie because he has problems. A good example of this is when George (Lennie's Friend) keeps sending Lennie out of the room when he talks to the other workers. Since this novel is taking place in the dark ages of the Great Depression people may not have known that Lennie was a victim of Mental Illness. Another good example of this being displayed in Steinbeck's novel is when George just thinks that Lennie is stupid and he may not now that he is suffering from Mental Disability.



Lennie's murders caused because of mental disability.

Lennie only killed the mice and Curley's wife because of his mental illness. This illness caused him to not know the true meanings or understandings of death. He had problems that made him believe that he could not let them get herd screaming or else he was not going to get to tend to the rabbits which is what he always wanted.






3 comments:

  1. What do you thing Steinbeck was aiming to achieve when writing about Lennie's disability. Was it to inform the audience and make them change their ways and be more inclusive or just to document exactly how someone like Lennie was treated in the 30s.

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