The Great Depression‚ in which the short novel Of Mice And Men was written‚ the imbalance between the rich and the poor couldn’t be sustained‚ causing people to be lonely and isolated from others. Everyone seemed to have a desperate need for work making it so a lot people feared each other and automatically shut people out. Deprived cotton farmers migrated to California in the false hope that the posters about plentiful jobs were true. Citizens traveled alone and had very few family members and
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during the great depression in California‚ America. Loneliness is the consistent theme running through the novel‚ relating as it does to the other themes namely: broken dreams and prejudice. Steinbeck illustrates through Curley’s wife‚ Candy‚ and Crooks‚ three main characters of the novel the great negative effect of loneliness on humans. All the characters encounter and face problems and negative feelings due to their deep loneliness and isolation. This is counterbalanced very cleverly through the
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Gabriel‚ John Mr. Gonzales English II Pre-Ap Period 1 The Discriminating Fact Discrimination is universal‚ it’s everywhere‚ and in fact‚ it happens to everyone. The victims of Discrimination are usually misunderstood‚ harshly judged‚ and very mistreated and this causes discomfort in the victims in the future. The reactions to Discrimination varies on each type of person as Discrimination is often based on qualities and abilities. Discrimination shapes the story by targeting vulnerable
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CHARACTER ANALYSIS George George is the second main character and one of the protagonist after Lennie in Of Mice and Men. When Lennie gets into trouble‚ He always helps him find a solution or get away‚ though Lennie’s size combined with his mental handicap caused problems frequently. He is also a planner‚ telling Lennie where he should go if there is trouble on the ranch. To make the dream which is owing a ten-acre farm becomes a reality‚ He’s competent to work hard. Unlike the
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one thing in life that is really needed and that is friends. Without friends‚ people would suffer from loneliness and solitude. Loneliness leads to low self-esteem and deprivation. In the novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ by John Steinbeck‚ the characters‚ Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curly’s wife all exhibit some form of loneliness. They are driven towards the curiosity of George and Lennie’s friendship because they do not have that support in their life. Through his novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ Steinbeck demonstrates that
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with great power‚ a high echelon of power. Lennie is subjugated by George‚ hence the reason he acts like a subordinate to George. Crooks‚ Lennie‚ Candy‚ Curley’s wife and George are all attributed by Steinbeck with unique forms of power. At times power which raises them to a high position but other times great powerlessness. In this essay I will be mainly focusing on Crooks and argue that he has slight yet not a lot of power compared to some other characters. Firstly I notice that Steinbeck always
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their possessions shows in depth the limited amount of items they have. Each character have attributes and characteristics that differed from one another. Among these new characters is the old swamper‚ Curley‚ Curley’s wife‚ Carlson‚ Slim‚ and Crooks. Crooks‚ who is "a nigger" (Steinbeck‚)‚ acquired the role to be "the stable buck" where "the boss [gives him] hell" when he gets angry. As far as social hierarchy the boss‚ who "gets pretty mad sometimes‚ but [is a] pretty nice" (22) guy‚ holds the most
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weakness. Nearly all the characters‚ including George‚ Lennie‚ Candy‚ Crooks and Curley’s wife feel lonely‚ isolated and weak and they try to destroy those who are even weaker. Perhaps the most powerful example of this cruel tendency is when Crooks criticizes Lennie’s dream of the farm and his dependence on George. Having just admitted his own vulnerabilities - he is a black man with a crooked back who longs for a companionship - Crooks zeroes in on Lennie’s own weaknesses. In scenes such as this one
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if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is‚ long’s he’s with you. I tell ya... I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.” One of the characters that Steinback clearly uses to develop his theme of loneliness would be Crooks. Crooks is the only African American migrant worker on the ranch‚ so Steinback uses him to represent how the African Americans were treated as a whole during that time. He works as a
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work and how the Depression bought loneliness onto the people of the USA. Some people in the ranch live more lonely lives than others. One of the loneliest persons on the ranch has to be Curly’s wife. As she is the only women on the ranch she feels isolated and left out from the men and feels different. Also no one really wants to talk to her as she is the wife of the boss’s son and no one talks to her out of fear of getting into a fight with Curly who has power upon the ranch to fire people as he is
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