During the great depression women hadn’t rights as men and there was gender inequality in the workplace. The author gave the audience a view of women and representation during his novel Mice and Men and by allowing the women to give a voice about her unhappiness, loneliness life and her American dream that she couldn’t achieve. Men kept thinking about women in improper and unjust way because she is a female. The novel have a deficiency of having other women character because the priority and preference was to men. “Women primarily worked in service industries, and these jobs tended to continue during the 1930s. Clerical workers, teachers, nurses, telephone operators, and domestics largely found work. In many instances, employers lowered
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The only women character in the novel was Curley’s wife, she represented the condition that all women had which were powerless and under control at some points and can only housewife or even to talk to a male. In this quote Curley’s wife said “ I get lonely, you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk anybody? ” ( Steinbeck 87). “ Married women were often the first to be laid off. At a time of widespread unemployment, it was felt that jobs should be allocated only to male 6"breadwinners” (Vonnegut 14). In that period of time, men wanted to corrupt the power of women because the women could lead the men into troubles with their social life as we know that the Mice and Men novel started with George and Lennie which a women caused them to run from the previous ranch. In this quote the swamper said “Well—she got the eye” ( Steinbeck 28). In this quote it provides that women hadn’t respect from men. They treated the women differently than in our present. The men treated Lennie which has a mental health problems better than they treated the women. All the characters in the novel had names expect Curley’s wife which give a strong fact that women hadn’t any importance. it seems that women hadn’t any rights to have a friendship with men or to have a compassion from
The only women character in the novel was Curley’s wife, she represented the condition that all women had which were powerless and under control at some points and can only housewife or even to talk to a male. In this quote Curley’s wife said “ I get lonely, you can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk anybody? ” ( Steinbeck 87). “ Married women were often the first to be laid off. At a time of widespread unemployment, it was felt that jobs should be allocated only to male 6"breadwinners” (Vonnegut 14). In that period of time, men wanted to corrupt the power of women because the women could lead the men into troubles with their social life as we know that the Mice and Men novel started with George and Lennie which a women caused them to run from the previous ranch. In this quote the swamper said “Well—she got the eye” ( Steinbeck 28). In this quote it provides that women hadn’t respect from men. They treated the women differently than in our present. The men treated Lennie which has a mental health problems better than they treated the women. All the characters in the novel had names expect Curley’s wife which give a strong fact that women hadn’t any importance. it seems that women hadn’t any rights to have a friendship with men or to have a compassion from