Lennie’s Mental Disability: Unable to Control Actions Everyone at one point in their life has seen or came across someone with a mental handicap. Without dealing with one yourself it is hard to understand the challenges many are faced with these disabilities. In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, almost every character struggles with some sort of disability whether it be mental or physical. Most notably, however is Steinbeck’s Lennie Small who, as a migrant rancher worker, has faced many challenges that he has not been able to control his actions , especially when he gets scared. Steinbeck describes Lennie as a “ huge man, shapeless face, large pale eyes with large sloping shoulders” (2). As a reader, you soon, then learn that Lennie has
