How Does Crooks Use Power In Of Mice And Men

The power someone has over others can affect one's life, hopes and dreams. Power is still power whether it is power of authority or power by manipulating people. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck some characters, when given the opportunity exercise their power over others to manipulate them. The characters that use their power to manipulate other characters is Crooks, Carlson and Curley’s wife. Each character in Of Mice and Men have some type of power, some are not as noticeable as Crooks’s power to manipulate others. Crooks is not a character the book tells a lot about but it does show the reader what kind of person he is. In the book Crooks tries to convince Lennie that George is not going to come back. Crooks said to Lennie in the barn “s'pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more” (71). Crooks repeated several statements about George not returning. Crooks attempts to scare Lennie by asking him what would he do if George never came back. Crooks is trying to manipulate Lennie to think think George has left him or got hurt maybe even killed. He does this because since he is the only
Which in the future will make Carlson feel more powerful than Candy because he got what he wanted. Once Carlson successfully convinced Candy to let him shoot the dog he said ¨Come on, boy¨ as if he were just taking it for a walk then he shouted to Candy sympathetically ¨He won't even feel it” (48). In addition to Carlson's power that he uses to manipulate other characters he also gets what he wants even if it hurts people. For example, he shot Candy's dog without giving a care in the world about the dog or Candy. Candy did not want his dog’s life to end but Carlson put it in a way that it seemed like Candy was punishing the dog by making him live. This was Carlson’s way of exercising his power to manipulate