Ranch

use to denounce the status of others in the social hierarchy. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie and George make their way to Salinas, California, to work on a ranch during the Great Depression. The common occurrence of discrimination is portrayed throughout the novel to the trophy wife, old ranch hand, and African American man. Those with power will undermine people with perceivable differences to feel superior. The young woman, solely known as Curley’s wife, is faced…

famous works, Of Mice and Men, is a story about two brothers - Lennie and George. Steinbeck depicts Lennie and George’s experience in a ranch. He not only dcorruption happens easily in an unbalanced society. Lennie and George’s relationship is very subtle in the story. They are like brothers and the spiritual support of each other. They finally got jobs in a ranch and met different kinds of people. Lennie’s innocence led him to a marginal situation. George decided to kill Lennie. Their dream…

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the main characters, George and Lennie, travel to a ranch in Soledad, California, in order to find work during the Great Depression. Running from trouble up north in another place called Weed, they soon find that the new ranch they have arrived at holds just as many opportunities for things to go wrong. There, they meet three morose people who stand apart from the rest and are lonely because of it: Crooks, the crippled, black stable buck; Candy, the old…

face with restless eyes. George is a somewhat unlikeable protagonist, this is because George is quick-tempered when dealing with Lennie. George Milton is a typical migrant farm worker, a class of poor and lonely men who traveled from ranch to ranch looking for work during the Great Depression. George differs from those bitter men, because of his friendship with Lennie, which keeps him in his own words from getting “mean”. George was asked if he would take care of Lennie, when…

A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man.” Chapter 3 of the novel Of Mice and Men describes how Carlson, a man that works in the same Ranch as Candy, kills Candy’s old dog. Candy is an old man that works in the Ranch in Soledad, he has no arm and cleans the bunkhouse, where all the workers from the Ranch sleep in. I think it was right for Candy to let Carlson kill his old dog because he was really old, smelly, blind and had no teeth. Candy could always get another…

She is the only female on the ranch and Steinbeck makes it clear that she is separate from the rest of the men she lives with early on by using words such as ‘sourly’ and ‘scowling’ to describe the reaction of the ranch workers to her presence. Steinbeck makes it obvious that they do not accept her, making her isolated as they are the only people she can talk to. Curley’s wife is also left at the ranch on Saturday night and it is evident that she is bitter about it…

during the Great Depression where a large number of people become ranch workers which evidently meant they would travel around…

the others have gone out, but Crooks furiously says, “I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room” (68). Crooks being the only man unwelcome in the bunk house suggests that the ranch hands subject him to racial discrimination. Crooks living in solitude implies that the other ranch hands refuse to live alongside him, presumably because they think less of him due to his skin color. In addition, Lennie questions why Crooks isn’t wanted in the bunk house so Crooks responds,…

the ranch. One of the main ways the novel shows sexism towards women is through one specific character, Curley’s wife. In the novel, we are never told a name for Curley’s wife. Instead, she is…

much respect for anyone because of his position on the ranch, being the son of the owner. Moreover, white people have the power over the black people on the ranch. In the barn room…