If the society someone lives in is a paradise, that is the total of what that person will know to think. Ordinarily, they will think life is a paradise. Curley grew up with a sexist and racist community, so he took on that way of thinking. Sexism and racism is the way everyone in his community has been convinced and has convinced him. He forces his wife to stay in the house because he feels as if he should be the only man she associates herself with. Undoubtedly, Curley’s way of thinking is wrong, and women should have their own rights, but Curley does not know any better since he has been convinced that men are superior to women by the citizens around him. This is in the same manner to why he is racist towards Crooks. Curley does not know any better than to show prejudice towards people who are not white or of the male gender on behalf of the men and women he grew up with.
Consequently, Curley’s actions and thoughts have been brought upon him by the cause of the people around him throughout his life. Much of what Curley does is due to his past life. If he had not grown up in the time he did, and he was born now, his thoughts and actions would be different. Nonetheless, the realm Curley grew up in happens to be an era of prejudice, and he was lonely child. Curley’s actions are not his own