How Does Steinbeck Use Discrimination In The Novel Of Mice And Men

Discrimination
(A discussion of how the author uses discrimination in the novel Of Mice and Men) In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, many character experience different challenges throughout the book. One main thing that three characters struggle with is discrimination. People are constantly treat them in an unfair way and always look at them like they are not equal human beings. This does make sense though for the time period in which this novel was wrote, most people had not yet accepted that people were in fact, equal. Even though there is less discrimination today, it has not completely gone away. Things need to change because people are not enforcing consequences when someone is being discriminated against, as well as there are not many good models to show younger generations not to treat others different based on age, gender, race, and so many more. Three characters that face discrimination the most in the novel, Of Mice and Men, are Curley’s wife, Crooks, and Lennie. Curley’s wife has a huge set up to be discriminated against because she is the only female on the ranch all the time and they do not always think of her as an equal. She faces discrimination for

He does a phenomenal job because each of them is discriminated in a different way and each of them have their own battles to fight throughout the novel. DIscrimination is something that has gotten better, but has not completely gone away despite how wrong it is. The things people are discriminated for are out of their control and do not make them less of a person than anyone else. Back during the time period of this novel, discrimination was a huge problem for women, the mentally disabled, and the colored people as well as elderly and Steinbeck tries to portray this in a way where people can recognise that it is