Examples Of Social Power In Of Mice And Men

Social power can be seen in the novel also. Social power is visible when one person has the ability to influence or control the behavior of people. Social power heavily relates to a Social hierarchy; how an individual and group(s) are arranged in a relatively linear ladder. We can rank these characters according to two categories, "low" and "high" in the social hierarchy. The characters that can fit into the “low” category are Candy, Crooks, Curley's wife and Lenny. On the other hand the characters that can fit into the “high” category are Slim, George, and Curley. We can look at Curley's wife and Crooks as occupying the lowest part of the social order, with Crooks being told at one point that Curley's wife has power over him because of his