John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men faced many social realism throughout the entire novel. Social realism is a type a writing that concerns itself with direct engagement and intervention in the problematic social conditions in society. The social realism expressed in Of Mice and Men include racism, sexism, and the problem with the American Dream of the time period. The novel takes place during the Great Depression, which was still in the time period of major sexism, racism, and everyone was basically only in to do something for themselves. Some of the men in the novel were happy if they could simply go out and have a drink at the end of the day. John Steinbeck includes in the novella, many racism issues with crooks being the only African-
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Because of this, he was often mistreated by basically everybody on the ranch. This includes Curley’s wife, who, is also kind of neglected by all the characters of the book as well. Crooks would often be the victim of someone who was mad. For example, Steinbeck reveals, “Yeah. Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that. He reads a lot. Got books in his room” (Steinbeck 20). This is saying that whenever the boss would get mad, he would take it out on Crooks instead of anyone else. Anyone could see it was because Crooks is the only black person in the novel. The only time, from what the audience could tell, that Crooks has felt like a “normal” person was when he was talking to Lennie and Candy. Even then, his short moment of happiness was ruined by Curley's wife, who decided to put him down in a completely rude and racist way by threatening him that she could get him hung so fast that it is not even …show more content…
She is the only female on the ranch and is often left out when the men would do stuff. She doesn’t even have a real name, just Curley’s wife. Her not having a name shows the importance of her, and it’s not a lot, if any at all. Everyone on the ranch leaves her out of stuff, even though she never technically did anything to any of them. George says in the novel, “Listen to me, you crazy bastard,’ he said fiercely. ‘Don’t you even take a look at that b***. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no pieces of jail bait worse than her. You leave he be”(Steinbeck 32). George is saying to Lennie to stay away from curley’s wife, even though he does not know anything about her. They don’t even give her chance to see who she really is. The role of being a women in the novel is not important at
Because of this, he was often mistreated by basically everybody on the ranch. This includes Curley’s wife, who, is also kind of neglected by all the characters of the book as well. Crooks would often be the victim of someone who was mad. For example, Steinbeck reveals, “Yeah. Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that. He reads a lot. Got books in his room” (Steinbeck 20). This is saying that whenever the boss would get mad, he would take it out on Crooks instead of anyone else. Anyone could see it was because Crooks is the only black person in the novel. The only time, from what the audience could tell, that Crooks has felt like a “normal” person was when he was talking to Lennie and Candy. Even then, his short moment of happiness was ruined by Curley's wife, who decided to put him down in a completely rude and racist way by threatening him that she could get him hung so fast that it is not even …show more content…
She is the only female on the ranch and is often left out when the men would do stuff. She doesn’t even have a real name, just Curley’s wife. Her not having a name shows the importance of her, and it’s not a lot, if any at all. Everyone on the ranch leaves her out of stuff, even though she never technically did anything to any of them. George says in the novel, “Listen to me, you crazy bastard,’ he said fiercely. ‘Don’t you even take a look at that b***. I don’t care what she says and what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no pieces of jail bait worse than her. You leave he be”(Steinbeck 32). George is saying to Lennie to stay away from curley’s wife, even though he does not know anything about her. They don’t even give her chance to see who she really is. The role of being a women in the novel is not important at