Of Mice And Men Crooks Women

In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there is only one woman and one African American male announced in the reading. The women is Curley’s wife, her name is not stated in the novel, who is the only woman that lives on the farm. While Crooks, the African American male, lives on the farm in a little cottage away from the rest of the men that live there. As we keep reading, we soon get the idea that Steinbeck’s purpose of women and African Americans is to present: discrimination towards race, gender stereotyping, and the double standards in the predominantly male workplace. The time period this novel was written, which was the 1930’s, the discrimination was based on race. Crooks is not allowed in the bunkhouse with the white ranch hands. Many of the men have never seen where Crooks lived on the farm. Stated in the novel, “Candy leaned against the wall beside the broken collar while he scratched his wrist stump. ‘I been here a long time,’ he said. ‘An Crooks been here a long time. This’s the first time i ever been in his room. Crooks said darkly, ‘Guys don’t come into a colored man’s room very much’”

George, like all other men, see women as exchangeable objects that satisfy certain needs with the exchange of money. Women were either seen as this type of stereotype or as nothing more than a stay home wife. This is shows how so call “men” can be seen as cowards because they think they have all the power in the world. “George said,’She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger. That Curley got his work cut out for him. Ranch with a bunch of guys on it wint no place for a girl, specially like her’” (Steinbeck 93). George is setting an example of how women are seen as weak and have no mean to be in a man's work place. Curley’s wife soon becomes like an animal in Lennie’s hands, for women were considered as