Humans are the most selfish creatures. We all try not to be and will probably try to be selfless but ultimately we will end up doing what we want and what is best for us. In the book Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, it is shown through some of the characters that power is really important in the way we live. Through the characters of Crooks, Curley, and Curley’s Wife it is shown how that once people feel themselves losing power, most of the time they will do anything to gain that power back that they thought they once had. The most evident example is Curley’s Wife. Being a woman in the 1930’s she already has very little power to begin with. Since she is living on the ranch, she has even less. Especially since all of the men around her have
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Since he is a black man he can’t really sleep in the same room as the other white ranch workers. So when Lennie, very innocently, came into the doorway of Crooks’s room trying to befriend him, Crooks saw an opportunity and seemed to jump at it because it didn’t happen often. This room that Crooks has, is pretty much the only other type of power he has because that is his own space “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (68). When he says that Lennie has no right to come into his room it makes it seem like Lennie is less than him, even though he isn’t since he’s white, and can’t come into a room. When Crooks said this Lennie grew more shy and hesitant. That is what most people do when they are in a situation where they talk to someone of a higher status/position or in this case, more power. That is how Crooks’s room is a power that he …show more content…
With Curley’s wife successfully aiming for a black man and demeaning him while at the same time making it seem like she has more power than she really has, Curley unsuccessfully trying to gain power by fighting Lennie it is all coming from the same place and same motives, and lastly Crooks using what little power he has to intimidate Lennie. And that is trying to regain and build power by taking it from those who have less than you and intimidating them until they
Since he is a black man he can’t really sleep in the same room as the other white ranch workers. So when Lennie, very innocently, came into the doorway of Crooks’s room trying to befriend him, Crooks saw an opportunity and seemed to jump at it because it didn’t happen often. This room that Crooks has, is pretty much the only other type of power he has because that is his own space “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (68). When he says that Lennie has no right to come into his room it makes it seem like Lennie is less than him, even though he isn’t since he’s white, and can’t come into a room. When Crooks said this Lennie grew more shy and hesitant. That is what most people do when they are in a situation where they talk to someone of a higher status/position or in this case, more power. That is how Crooks’s room is a power that he …show more content…
With Curley’s wife successfully aiming for a black man and demeaning him while at the same time making it seem like she has more power than she really has, Curley unsuccessfully trying to gain power by fighting Lennie it is all coming from the same place and same motives, and lastly Crooks using what little power he has to intimidate Lennie. And that is trying to regain and build power by taking it from those who have less than you and intimidating them until they