Stereotypes In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

“Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without stopping to think that they’re people too.” -Dolphus Raymond (Lee 269) Stereotype means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. There are stereotypes that are shown in the book “Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. Stereotypes are shown in “Mice and Men,” in different ways such as how Steinbeck stereotypes, how relationships are impacted, and how the characters break holes in the stereotypes.

In the book “Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, the characters are stereotyped in several different ways. Curly’s wife is stereotyped from the very start of the book till the end. When she first walks in Lennie keeps looking at her. After she leaves George tells Lennie, “Do not you even look at that b***h.” (Steinbeck 32.) Another stereotype shown in “Mice and Men,” is when at the beginning of the story Slim is portrayed as a god. “A tall man

George stereotypes Curly’s wife right when he and Lennie meet her. George tells Lennie, “She is a tramp, and that Lennie should not talk or even look at Curly’s wife.” (Steinbeck 32.) George does not take the time to get to know Curly’s wife, therefore by him stereotyping her, he is choosing not to have any kind of relationship with her. Crooks’s relationship with the other people on the farm is impacted because he’s the only black guy on the ranch. The ranch is segregated by skin color. They do not let the black and white people live in the same houses. When Lennie asks Crooks why he doesn’t stay in the same, he says that the white people say he stinks. (Steinbeck 68.) Separating Crooks from the other guys is wrong (Gerund phrase.) Candy doesn’t hang out with the other guys. He stays by himself in the bunkhouse. He doesn’t go with them just because he is old. He goes into the barn with Lennie and Crooks because the other guys left him by himself. (Steinbeck