Discrimination has been an issue for a very long time. People today still discriminate against people based on their gender, age, race, and abilities. In 1937, when John Steinbeck wrote Of MIce and Men, discrimination was very real. The story takes place during the Great Depression, which many people were poor and had to look for work. A lot of the workers were often discriminated against. At the farm, when all of the workhands left to go to Susy's place, they left the most discriminated people behind. Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife were they only people who did not go. Each of those people were discriminated against based on gender, age, disabilities, and race. Lennie was left behind because of his mental disabilities. In the
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She is discriminated against because she is the only women on the farm. Curley's wife is said to be a tart and give the workers the eye. Based on that George warns Lennie about her, ¨´Well, you keep away from her, ´cause she's a rattrap if i've ever seen one.´¨(32). All the workers try to stay away from her because they think that she's trouble. Curley's wife is a very lonely character, too. She tries to get along with the men, but they all treat her like a lesser to them. When Curley's wife goes around looking for Curley, she's actually just looking for someone to talk to. ¨´ Think i don't like to talk to somebody ever’ once in awhile.´¨(77). She says that when she tries to be included on Candys, Crooks, and Lennie's conversation. The guys yell at her for always being around them. The discrimination of being a female affects her by her trying harder to get attention from the men and eventually leads to her death, because she tries to get Lennie's attention.
Many characters in Of Mice and Men are discriminated against. Some are discriminated against based on race like Crooks, based on gender like Curley's wife, based on disabilities like Candy and Lennie, and some based on age like Candy. Being discriminated against affected the characters differently. Some were lonely, and some were motivated to look for a better life somewhere else. John Steinbeck wrote about his characters being discriminated because he wanted to show how the prejudice affected the characters and people during that time
She is discriminated against because she is the only women on the farm. Curley's wife is said to be a tart and give the workers the eye. Based on that George warns Lennie about her, ¨´Well, you keep away from her, ´cause she's a rattrap if i've ever seen one.´¨(32). All the workers try to stay away from her because they think that she's trouble. Curley's wife is a very lonely character, too. She tries to get along with the men, but they all treat her like a lesser to them. When Curley's wife goes around looking for Curley, she's actually just looking for someone to talk to. ¨´ Think i don't like to talk to somebody ever’ once in awhile.´¨(77). She says that when she tries to be included on Candys, Crooks, and Lennie's conversation. The guys yell at her for always being around them. The discrimination of being a female affects her by her trying harder to get attention from the men and eventually leads to her death, because she tries to get Lennie's attention.
Many characters in Of Mice and Men are discriminated against. Some are discriminated against based on race like Crooks, based on gender like Curley's wife, based on disabilities like Candy and Lennie, and some based on age like Candy. Being discriminated against affected the characters differently. Some were lonely, and some were motivated to look for a better life somewhere else. John Steinbeck wrote about his characters being discriminated because he wanted to show how the prejudice affected the characters and people during that time