Essay On Crooks In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Crooks, Candy, Curley's wife, and Lennie are all stereotypically displayed as what they come off as at first, the colored man, the migrant worker, the woman, and the one with cognitive disabilities. All of them are clearly underprivileged in some way, either by their sex, gender, brains, or where they come from.
Crooks is constantly referred to as a negro throughout the book. He is treated as someone want to or should be around. He even has his own shack because other workers refuse to sleep in the same bunkhouse as him. Plus, it’s not something that’s even kept on the down-low, he even mentioned how he knew they didn't like him and how he isn’t wanted. When Lennie asks him why he says that, he responds with, “Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink.”(68) He also has to live separately and be alone compared to the others who at least socialize with one another once in awhile. Because of his race, he lives an isolated life, and the thing is, around that time, he was definitely not the only one. Society frowned upon black people and would burn them at the stake if any supposed wrongful mistake or crime was committed by them. Around the great depression, there were many migrant worker who would move across the country in hopes of finding work. Around that time period, they were all looking for the same thing, a piece of land they would own, grow crops in, and have a family in. Old man Candy had his hopes set on this piece of
Women were supposed to not work, be in the kitchen, and tend for their children, cleaning, and cooking. Whenever Curley’s wife would try to explain how she was just trying to have a conversation with them because she was lonely, the guys would automatically assume she was flirting with them (although she was), she would have genuinely meant it that she was