Health Problems In Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Disabilities can be mental : everything is in your head; and one of the characters that has mental disabilities is Lennie, society treats him in a harsh ways. When Curley comes into the bunkhouse, and sees that only George answers his questions, he screams to Lennie : “Curley stared levelly at him. ‘Well, nex’ time you answer when you’re spoke to.’ He turned toward the door and walked out, and his elbows were still bent out a little.” Lennie can’t answer Curley because of his mental conditions. Curley doesn’t seem to get it so he treats Lennie very poorly by screaming at him. George is talking about Lennie to Slim : “One day a bunch of guys was standin’ around up on the Sacramento River. I was feelin’ pretty smart. I turns to Lennie and says, ‘Jump in.’ An’ he jumps. Couldn’t swim a stroke. He damn near drowned before we could get him.” This quotation shows that people take advantage of Lennie’s disabilities just to have fun and watch him suffer. It’s not Lennie’s fault if he jumped in the river and people know that, but they still choose to treat him carelessly, and wrongly. In conclusion, we know that Lennie suffers from mental

It is very obvious that Lenny has a weak mind and most likely mentally disabled,

“One in four people in the world will be affected by mental health … but few of them will seek or receive help …” (Nullis). People don’t seek help for their mental illness because of the facilities they have in place them. These people who don’t receive help are categorized as violent people by a few In America and the UK. John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men demonstrates the real world problem of how people with mental health issues are not treated and seen as equals and how people deal with others with mental illness. Steinbeck uses Lennie in his novel Of Mice and Men to show how people with mental illnesses are viewed and treated by the public.

The novel, Of Mice and Men, talk about different characters and how things were back in the Great Depression by following two ranchers, George and Lennie. When the novel first introduces the setting at the lake, it also introduced the two main characters. George is described as the one that seems to take in everything with his “restless eyes and sharp, strong features” and Lennie follows him. Lennie is described as “a huge man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, with wide sloping shoulders;” George and Lennie look like opposites which draws the question, Why are they traveling together? The answer becomes clear once we get into the novel but before that, Lennie starts to drink the scummy water and plays like a toddler in the lake. This shows that he has some mental disability and this is further shown when he starts to forget everything. His disability foreshadows trouble which shows that Lennie is the one that causes the most trouble because of his mental disability to forget everything, how he isn’t wanted anywhere, and how his disability ultimately ends up ruining dreams and lives.

Barbara Sher once said, “‘Isolation is a dream killer’” (qtd. in Wishcraft). In his novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck scrutinizes the effects that alienation can have on society. Many characters experience loneliness throughout the novel. He illustrates the results of individuals becoming isolated from their peers. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck portrays characters alienated from society in order to illustrate the harmful effects of loneliness caused by discrimination.

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Power can bring out the evil in anyone. At one point, most people have faced adversity through the social standings made by a society. But when someone who has faced adversity through social standings has the chance of power by using social standings they take it. Even if they have been on the other side before and hated it.

The obstacles Of Mice and Men The characters in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck face struggles during this book. It tells the story of Lennie Small and George Milton two migrant ranch workers searching for new job opportunities during the great depression. The struggles George and Lennie are running into are having to be responsible for another person's life. This relates to the title because John Steinbeck had an illusion to the poem To a mouse that's how he came up with the title Of Mice and Men. The authors message to the readers is to realize how much people struggled during the great depression the obstacle george is facing is that he has to take care of Lennie and it's almost like Lennie is George's pet because if you lose

Imagine that a loved one has a terminal illness and is constantly undergoing excruciating pain. Would you take their life and spare them all the suffering that leads toward an inevitable departure or let them live a little longer but suffer till the end? John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men follows the travels of Lennie Small and George Milton as they chase their dream of living off the “fatta the lan” in their little house with their rabbits during the Great Depression. They work on a farm in Salinas, California to get closer to that dream but they are never able to keep a job for a long period of time. This is due to Lennie’s mental illness where he can’t control himself physically and is mentally subpar. Which leads to accidents which

“They left all the weak ones here,” she said finally.” (Steinbeck 84). The novel Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in 1937, the setting of the novel is a ranch just a few miles from Soledad, California. In Of Mice and Men there are many characters with different impairments. Some examples of the impairments are mental or physical such as age, gender or health. The characters are Lennie, Candy, Crooks And Curley’s wife which all apply with age, gender and health.

“I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail”(Steinbeck 7). If a person has a mental or physical challenge, it will have a major effect on how that person is capable of living the rest of their life. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates how the mental and physical challenges and state of mind of the characters makes them incapable of achieving their American Dreams. Individuals with mental challenges in the 1930’s and now a days, were and still may be considered to be worthless and not good for much. Having a physical challenge, like a missing hand, will affect the type of work someone can do, and could limit someone job opportunities. Usually when a person is told something as a child, they will believe

.The novel Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck. In Soledad, California during the Great Depression in the 1930's two men of the one named George and the other named Lennie were men who travel around working at ranches. George is the small, quick-witted one, and Lennie is the big, slow, dumb and extremely strong one. They have a dream, to have a little place all to themselves, without anyone bothering them. Their dreams are shattered though, when Lennie, who doesn't know his own strength, gets in trouble. In the pursuit of love, happiness and the American dream, man becomes a victim of his own circumstances and discovers that the good life becomes impossible for humanity to obtain and contains

Mental illness in America has always been a sensitive topic because people with mental illness were often times treated as inferior to the common man. Someone with a mental illness can often contribute to society just as well and sometimes better than the average person. The Great Depression was a significant period in the treatment of the mentally ill. It was one of the most difficult eras in this nation’s history. Many people faced extreme hardships. People with mental illness faced discrimination, therefore they faced aggrandized adversity. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck demonstrates this through Lennie, a large man with an apparent mental disability that experiences lots of problems on his journey.

In his novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses many characters to show his assertion that man is basically evil. When Curley’s wife confronts Lennie, Crooks, and Candy in Crook’s place, she notes that the others “left all the weak ones here” (77). The “weak” ones that Curley’s wife refer to all attack each other in a vicious circular firing squad. Crooks taunts Lennie about the possibility of George not returning, and takes “pleasure in his torture” as he “[presses] forward for some kind of private victory” (71). Curley’s wife calls Candy and Lennie “a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep” (78) and threatens to get Crooks “strung up on a tree” (81). Meanwhile, all the other characters are the ones that make those Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife feel “weak” because they are disabled mentally, disabled physically, black, and female, respectively. In this way, Steinbeck shows that all men are basically evil as they do not lend a hand to each other and instead simply attack and prey upon each other.

Published studies report that about 25% of all U.S. adults have a mental illness and that nearly 50% of U.S. adults will develop at least one mental illness during their lifetime. This is a very surprising statistic because if more people knew about this they wouldn’t treat someone with a mental disability or a mental illness like they are not human. There are people that would not even associate themselves with someone who has some type of mental disability or illness and they might be developing a mental illness and not even be aware of it. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men a huge human rights issue is about someone having a mental health problem or illness and could have fixed or worked on if he had the proper healthcare and people

John Steinbeck, an American novelist, is well-known for his familiar themes of depression and loneliness. He uses these themes throughout a majority of his novels. These themes come from his childhood and growing up during the stock market crash. A reader can see his depiction of his childhood era. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the prominent themes of loneliness, the need for relationships, and the loss of dreams in the 1930s through the novels’ character.