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Schizophrenia In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Schizophrenia is a disease that affects 1.5 million people throughout the world and may cause memory loss, hallucinations, and problems with restraint. Throughout the novel, Lennie demonstrates severe memory loss, visual and auditory hallucinations as well as a child like lack of restraint.

Lennie Smalls from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men suffers from severe memory loss. Throughout the novel it is apparent that Lennie often forgets things, for example “I forgot’ Lennie said ‘I tried not to forget. Honest to god I did George”(4). Webmd says that schizophrenia is linked to distorted thoughts and can be linked to memory loss.

Towards the end of the novel, Lennie had audial and visual hallucinations, probably caused by the traumatic events
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