Discrimination In Of Mice And Men

Loneliness can come from something higher people do or what someone has done to make someone feel lonely or to make you isolated from others. You can either make you own decisions and make yourself invisible, or as John Steinbeck uses other people can dehumanized you and make you invisible. The characters in Of Mice and Men has different problems, issues, discriminated. Steinbeck uses his characters to illustrate how their personal isolation makes invisible to the rest of society. Just like George and Lennie in the novella many people worked on farms as migrant workers to survive the GD. Just like the characters they work on farms to get more money but their are some barriers that discouraged them. Consequently,the theme of loneliness is revealed …show more content…
They have no relationship with him as he lives in the stables with all the animals. Since Crooks is a different color than the others including the ranch owners make him feel lonely and invisible. They let him live in the stables without any visits from anyone. With evidence that Crooks is the only colored one out of the whole ranch, we can infer that he had hardships at his time there. It was just not Crooks that was discriminated, he was discriminated because he was the only one that was black and lived with animals. “ this is just a nigger talking an a busted back nigger” (Steinbeck). Meanwhile the ranch owners call him very disrespectful names to make him feel like he is the only one nobody is here or cares about him. But intern, when Lennie finds Crooks in the stable he tries talking to him and trying to make another friend. “Don't make no difference who the guy is, long as he's with you” (Steinbeck). In this scene, Crooks is trying to comfort Lennie and try making him feel like another person is here for him and loves him. Lennie is the only person that socializes with Crooks without letting him down. In fact Lennie tries to help Crooks out. But before he tries George takes Lennie to far and tries to take advantage of him. Crooks is telling Lennie, “S’pose George don't come back no more” (Steinbeck). Crooks is trying to get on Lennie's level and think like him to make him understand …show more content…
Lennie tries to help people but when he does most times it does not end up in a mood. Since Lennie is not the smartest, his friends try to take advantage of him and talk him into doing things he normally not do. Knowing that Lennie is slow and has problems helps the readers understand more why he does things. Lennie tries to make and talk to new people but when he does he gets angry when the say something and he freaks out. When the opening scene started Lennie and George were drinking water and Lennie is compared to an animal to how he drinks. “ Lennie continued to snort into the water” (Steinbeck). He doesn't know the proper or improper way to drink water is. Additionally, he really doesn't understand the proper way of doing everyday things. The only person that has been with Lennie all his life is George. George is the only person that understands Lennie because he has been with him the longest. George will no make fun of Lennie or discriminate him because he sees past that he sees the best in Lennie. Although Lennie may be very mean and hurtful he can also be helpful or try to help people out. Lennie helps out with the little pups on the ranch so he can contribute to the work on the farm. When Lennie and George were working at the ranch they thought of what their future farm would be like. George told