Change In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In schools, when someone is bullied because of being different or for not having many friends, it shows that society can change to accept someone who i not like them. This shows that people don’t accept others and don’t try to accept them. In Of Mice and Men, it shows that Lennie can't change because of all of the things he has done, like breaking someone's hand and killing someone else. It also shows that society can’t change because they can’t accept someone with a mental illness or anyone that is different to them. After Lennie Small and George Milton left Weed, a town they lived in, they went somewhere else to work. They had to leave because Lennie grabbed someone's dress and wouldn't let go after she screamed. When they got to the farm they would be working, the people noticed that Lennie was different. After Lennie had messed up over and over, he knew he had done …show more content…

While Steinbeck doesn’t directly state that Lennie has a mental disability, it is obvious to the reader because of his actions. It is obvious when he killed Curley’s wife but didn’t know what he was doing until she was already dead. Although Curley’s wife offered Lennie to pet her hair, she asked him to stop and when he wouldn’t she pulled away and Lennie grabbed harder. This shows that Lennie doesn’t understand what not to do just like a child. “Lennie went and looked at the dead girl” “I done another bad thing” (Steinbeck 91-92). Steinbeck also shows that society is slow to change and that Lennie is slow by not knowing what he was doing when he grabbed that girls dress in Weed. “He reached out to feel this red dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk... the guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie” (Steinbeck 41-42). A normal adult wouldn’t grab on to a girl’s dress while a child might, that shows that he has a mind of a

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