Way back, around the time of the Great Depression, the perfect human being was considered a healthy, working, white male. If you did not fit into this category, which was about 70% of Americans, you were considered abnormal or didn’t really get a vote in society. In 1937, women didn’t get a say, they had to pose as the perfect house-wife and if you didn’t… well you were pushed aside and sometimes even put into an institution for your incompetence. Or if you didn’t have the best mind and your skin color, you were pushed around and made fun of because you were not able to defend yourself. These people were still considered Americans, it's just that they didn’t have a say in what goes on. John Steinbeck used border line social standards to issue
