Lennie George Character Analysis

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Mental
How can you tell if someone is mentally challenged? There are many, many different ways someone can show they are mentally challenged. Lennie travels with george because lennie is mentally challenges. Lennie shows he is mentally challenged in Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck.
Lennie forgets a lot and doesn't know his own strength, which is one way Steinbeck shows lennie is mentally challenged. “‘Lady Huh? Don’t even remember who that lady was. That was your own Aunt Clara. An’ she stopped givin’ em’ to ya. You always killed ‘em.’’’(9) Lennie doesn’t even remember his own Aunt Clara. He killed the mice from petting the two hard because he did not know his own strength. “‘Tell what made me stop that. One day a bunch of guys was standin’