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Of Mice And Men Handicapped Analysis

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Demitri hines
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1/30/2018
In John Steinbeck 's classic novela of Mice and Men, we see the character Lennie smalls descending into the stereotype of being handicapped. During the time of the great depression the handicapped never reach there American dream.
Steinbeck crafts Lennie a sincerely mentally handicapped man, as an archetype the mentally handicapped in our society in order to imply that the type of people are excluded from the american dream.
Lennie doesn 't get to accomplish his american dream due to him being mentally handicapped, but also gets in trouble even though he doesnt mean to. Esspecally when Lennie kills curlys wife. George defended him and tells slim lennie is mentally disabled. “Couldn we maybe bring him in and …show more content…

Kills curley’s wife with anger and no hesitation just like the mice and the pup. He does this but doesn 't really feel sorry for what he has done till george finds out pleading him to tend the rabbits just like a father and a child. All of this that has happened because of his mentally disability. Lennie knows she’s trouble and sees her as a threat and used the opportunity to have her to stop by showing anger and rage to intimidate curley’s wife just like a mind of a kid would do. Anger is one story but his disability of having a mind of a child who doesn’t know his own strength and kills on …show more content…

In the book the huge companion (Lennie) is being compared to a horse because of the way he drinks, which is like a horse. “His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps,snorting into the water like a horse”(3). Steinbeck dehumanizes lennie when he introduces him into mice and men. He compared lennie to a horse because of the way he drinks. In the evidence that I proposed there is more than “snorting into the water like a horse”. When he says “ His huge companion” it’s like george and his horse companion(Lennie) or like a knight(george) and his noble steed(Lennie), the list goes on and on. So if steinbeck gives us the clue of him acting like a horse this early in the book then he could of have something wrong with him. Like any pet or companion, there master has to put them down if they are dangerous, suffering, or too old just like candys dog. On page 105 of Mice and men, steinbeck wrote “Lennie turned his head and looked off across the pool and the darkening slopes of the Gabilans. ‘We gonna get a little place, George began. He reached in his side pocket and brought out Carlson’s Luger; he snapped off the safety, and the hand and gun lay on the ground behind Lennies back. He looked at the back of Lennie’s head, at the place where the spine and skull were

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