In our lives, there are a lot of parts that we don’t know and there are a lot of questions that we don’t know the answers to. Maybe we aren’t in the best place in our lives and we don’t know where we will be next year, let alone the very next day. It’s a natural human instinct to want to know, to be curious, and to try to fill in the blanks. When there is suspense, there are two common instincts: fear and hope. In any given situation, when we look to the future we can either dread, or look forward to. Fear, or hope. In Of Mice and Men, the characters live day to day with a hazy view of what’s to come. Somewhere within that dark grey fog, the characters find a hopeful outlook which is why the color yellow best represents Steinbeck’s story.
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Steinbeck makes it clear that in the 1930’s, women weren’t treated equal to men, but instead just as objects. The author makes a point in not even giving her a name, making her seem more like Curley’s possession rather than a human being with a genuine life. “‘-Sat’day night. Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle sniffs…’” (Steinbeck 78). In a small outbursts like these, Curley’s wife expresses how unhappy and lonely she. The men around the ranch always talk about her like she is always doing something she shouldn’t be doing and like she is always trying to get something out of the men, but they never really think about how it must be for her. She is the only girl on the ranch, she is married to an awful husband, and she doesn’t even have any friends. Instead of the men seeing this any thinking that maybe she is just always around because she has nowhere else to be and no one else to talk to, they instantly make assumptions about her motives. As you can imagine, a bland life like this isn’t by any means a fulfilling …show more content…
In the story, Crooks talking to Lennie about all the workers that come by the ranch and how they all have the same dream. Crooks makes this seem like it is naive to believe such a thing, but I think it is only human. To be alive is not to be living, but it’s only human to want to live. Crooks unfortunately doesn’t have much hope as you can see in the story when he talks about life. “‘S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d you like that?’” (Steinbeck 72). This shows how isolated Crooks feels. Everything was ripped away from him and he is treated with no respect. I think one of the reasons the author put Crooks on the story was to show us how when you life is so clouded and grey that no light can shine through, it is a very grey and depressing world.
In Of Mice and Men, you can see that yellow, the color of hope, represents the characters’ outlooks on life. Without hope for a better tomorrow, we would have nothing to live for and nothing to look forward to. Hope softens the harsh reality of uncertainty, making the mass amount of it we have in our lives seem just that much more bearable. The next time you are unsure of something in your life, just take a step back and understand that you cannot always be in control. Instead of worrying or fearing the future, just hope for the best and see where it gets
Steinbeck makes it clear that in the 1930’s, women weren’t treated equal to men, but instead just as objects. The author makes a point in not even giving her a name, making her seem more like Curley’s possession rather than a human being with a genuine life. “‘-Sat’day night. Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle sniffs…’” (Steinbeck 78). In a small outbursts like these, Curley’s wife expresses how unhappy and lonely she. The men around the ranch always talk about her like she is always doing something she shouldn’t be doing and like she is always trying to get something out of the men, but they never really think about how it must be for her. She is the only girl on the ranch, she is married to an awful husband, and she doesn’t even have any friends. Instead of the men seeing this any thinking that maybe she is just always around because she has nowhere else to be and no one else to talk to, they instantly make assumptions about her motives. As you can imagine, a bland life like this isn’t by any means a fulfilling …show more content…
In the story, Crooks talking to Lennie about all the workers that come by the ranch and how they all have the same dream. Crooks makes this seem like it is naive to believe such a thing, but I think it is only human. To be alive is not to be living, but it’s only human to want to live. Crooks unfortunately doesn’t have much hope as you can see in the story when he talks about life. “‘S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d you like that?’” (Steinbeck 72). This shows how isolated Crooks feels. Everything was ripped away from him and he is treated with no respect. I think one of the reasons the author put Crooks on the story was to show us how when you life is so clouded and grey that no light can shine through, it is a very grey and depressing world.
In Of Mice and Men, you can see that yellow, the color of hope, represents the characters’ outlooks on life. Without hope for a better tomorrow, we would have nothing to live for and nothing to look forward to. Hope softens the harsh reality of uncertainty, making the mass amount of it we have in our lives seem just that much more bearable. The next time you are unsure of something in your life, just take a step back and understand that you cannot always be in control. Instead of worrying or fearing the future, just hope for the best and see where it gets