Of Mice And Men Crooks Marginalized

Marginalizing is still stuck in our current world. Pushing and looking down at people has stayed around for hundreds of years. The rich look down on the poor and the high ranked look down on the lower ranked. When blacks were segregated from the society, all of the whites were considered a higher rank and the proper thing to was push blacks away. It has only been 54 years since segregation has been outlawed and permanently stopped. In Of Mice and Men, the experiences and actions of many characters reveal that weakness causes people to be marginalized. One of the first things that causes Candy to be marginalized is his crippled dog. Candy’s dog is, according to Carlson, old and useless. The dog isn't necessarily helpful on anyone's standards,

His race is defiantly a key factor. When Lennie asked Crooks “Why ain’t you wanted?” (p.68) Crooks replied with “ ‘Cause I'm black.” (p.68) Crooks him self as realized that he is marginalized for this reason. The dialog also calls him a “nigger” showing how the rest of the people would have looked at him. In addition to being black he is also lonely. The loneliness generates from his race and is carried over to his farm life. “ ‘Long as you won't get out and leave me alone, you might as well set down.”(p.69) Crooks is emitting the sense that he hasn't had a friendship in so long that he is forgetting what it is like when someone is nice. The third reason is his crooked back. His crooked back holds him back because he is not able to do the physical work that the others are capable of

Curley’s wife is margined because she is a woman. In Of Mice and Men women are looked down apron and are put at low standards. After she died Candy said to her “You wasn't no good. You ain't no good now, you lousy tart.”(p.95). The second reason is because she liked to flirt with the other men on the farm. “She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.”(p.31) After she did this Lennie called her pretty and George responded with “Don't take a look at that bitch. I don't care what she says or what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her.”(p.32) George is telling Lennie to stay away or he will be drawn into a trap. The final reason why she is pushed away is the fact that she tries to be bigger than the other weak ones. “‘I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny.’ Crooks had reduced himself to nothing.”(p.81) She threatened to hang Crooks because he was black, this made him an easy