Ruby Max, talks about her illness and says when she was sent to a mental institution, she did receive any flowers or anything of that nature, instead she got a few phone calls telling her to "perk up," as if she hadn't of thought of that. She then later says, " how come when people have mental damage you've got an overactive imagination. How come every organ in your body can get sick except for the brain...?" Which in my perspectives she's saying how come mental illnesses aren't taken seriously as other illnesses.
This relates to Of Mice and Men because Lennie, who has a mental illness, is treating poorly at times by George or the people around him. They speak to him as if he is a normal person and has absolutely nothing wrong with him. In reality he does, George doesn't really recognize that Lennie has an illness, he constantly just calls him "crazy." |
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