How Does Steinbeck Use Discrimination In Of Mice And Men

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Discrimination is so bad it can even lead to death. The novel Of Mice and Men shows how radically lives can be affected by discrimination. It can change a person’s live completely upside down for the worse. Steinbeck uses discrimination to dramatically affect characters such as Lennie,
Crooks, and Curley’s wife. To begin with, Lennie is treated completely differently because he is mentally challenged. George and Lennie are travelling to a ranch to find work when Lennie looks over to George and asks for the third time where they were heading to. George says to Lennie, “‘So you forgot that awready did you? I gotta tell you again do I? Jesus Christ, you’re a crazy bastard!’”(Steinbeck 4). This proves that Lennie is being discriminated against because of short term memory loss, and George doesn’t have the patience to help Lennie understand. Instead George treats him poorly and calls him crazy just
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When Candy is introducing George to the ranch, he tells him about the stable buck. The text says, “‘Ya see the stable buck’s a nigger. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him’”(Steinbeck 20). This shows how Crooks is discriminated against for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that they gave him the name Crooks because of his disfigured body. Another reason is that Crooks is black so the other men around the ranch treat him poorly because of it. In another instance, the men of the ranch were having fun playing poker and other card games in the cabin. However Steinbeck shows us how Crooks was segregated from the other men in the text,“‘he had his bunk in the harness room’”(66). Because of this Crooks couldn’t enjoy things that the other men could, one being friendship. No one wanted to affiliate with Crooks whatsoever. Because of that he suffered of depression and loneliness. This strongly shows how Crooks was discriminated against and treated like

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