Oppression In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls” Martin Luther king. In the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck,. The story Of Mice and Men is about George and Lennie going to a ranch to work and meet the hand Crooks. Crooks is the hand on the ranch he’s been so for many years, and hes got a crooked back so they keep him around. There are many themes in this book

John Steinbeck, the author, uses this societal pressure as the foundation of how she's treated by the men. Curley’s wife is never named, purposefully by Steinbeck to show the objectification that came with marriage during this time. When she isn’t being referred to as a ‘tart’ or another derogatory slang, her whole identity comes from the fact that she is married to Curley and therefore is his property. One key difference in the way the marriage is portrayed in the novel is the way they refer to each other while interacting with other characters. For example, in Chapter 3, Curley bursts into the men’s bunkhouse, saying “Any you guys seen my wife?” In contrast, Curley’s wife only ever refers to him as Curley, his given name. Many interactions like this display how respect isn't necessary concerning Curley’s wife, painting her in a picture of uselessness and vanity because she is a

How is a woman in an era dominated by men expected to gain attention? Steinbeck wrote the novel titled Of Mice and Men emphasising the male society while displaying American dreams crushed throughout the novel. Whereas, minimal wiggle room for Curley’s wife expands upon her husband’s father’s farm because of its majority being men and her being the inferior sex. Her image demonstrates a sexual figure towards the male workers when Lennie and George saw her for the first time as stated, “She had full, rough lips and widespread eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails red and her hair hung in curls with a cotton house dress,” whereas red usually provokes people as an attention seeking color from its vividness bringing along attention to her hands

Curley’s wife is probably one of the most misunderstood characters in the novel, often being looked down upon, or talked badly about. She is the only woman on the ranch, and who appears consistently throughout the novel. At one point, some of the workers are

Equality has been a hot topic in the past century. Women and African-Americans have not had equality for that long. Women gained quality in the 1920s and African-Americans gained equality in the 1960s. It took them a lot of time to get those rights and dream in Of Mice and Men, show equality must be worked for. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck utilizes the characters of Crooks and Curley’s wife to illustrate that equality takes a long time to come by.

John Steinbeck’s Women’s Essay John Steinbeck was a nobel award winning author. He wrote many amazing short stories and novels. Including “The Chrysanthemums” and Of Mice and Men. In these books both of the only female characters in the story are ruled by men, and society.

What Are Women “Girls want attention, women want respect.” This fictitious novel, Of Mice And Men, was written by John Steinbeck, and was published in 1937 during Franklin D Roosevelt’s presidency in the United States. At the same time, the country was undergoing the Great Depression. In this piece of writing, Steinbeck briefly included some historical elements such as, racism, cowboy’s, American dream, and Women’s rights. Of all these aspects, the one I personally find the most intriguing is Women’s Rights.

“A girl was standing there looking in. She had full, rouged lips and wide spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little red ostrich feathers.

Someone’s life is changed forever when they are constantly receiving discrimination from the people around them. Of Mice and Men is a sad adventure of George and Lennie working on a ranch. Discrimination is the act of treating someone in a negative way which is exemplified by John Steinbeck throughout the story. On the social hierarchy in the novella, the characters on the lower part of the social scale are discriminated the most. Of the characters working on the ranch, the characters discriminated the most are Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s wife. George and Lennie, came to work at the ranch so Lennie is added to the bottom. The characters are discriminated behind their back or straight to their face. Discrimination against Lennie, Crooks, and

Discrimination Against Mice and Men “How I wish we lived in a time where laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination” (Streisand). In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, discrimination is an obvious topic, much like loneliness is. Discrimination in this book is against three types of people: women, colors, and mentally slow people, despite them never having done any major wrongs against anyone, at least not intentionally. All throughout the book, these three types of people, displayed using the characters Lennie, Curley's wife, and Crooks, are constantly being discriminated against, whether it be by a single person, or by everyone. Discrimination was a significant issue back in the Great Depression era, and it still a significant issue today, despite the efforts against it.

The central issue in Of Mice and Men is that some of the characters like Lennie, Curley’s wife, Crooks, Candy, are discriminated. One theme emerging in Of Mice and Men is discrimination. One example that shows discrimination is that while everyone else's lives in the bunkhouse, Crooks lives in a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn.(Steinbeck 67) It shows discrimination because everyone except for Crooks lived in the bunkhouse. They’re excluding him because of his color. Another examples that shows discrimination is that Curley’s wife isn’t wanted at the bunkhouse.

“Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other.” Susan Shillinglaw wrote that men will always treat someone the same way they are being treated. She said that “knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.” Shillinglaw’s writing is very thorough and in-depth she uses many descriptive words but also gets straight to the point, similar to John Steinbeck’s writing. Both authors write about social injustice which is the unfair situations carried out in our society. The TED talk about injustice explains that people are quick to judge others by their identity. It is unfair that people have to shape their identity so others will accept them. Curley’s and Lennie’s relationship is an example

Across the world today, women do not receive the same basic human rights as men living in the same country. For example, in Yemen, only 50% of women can read, and in a poll recorded in 2006, before girls there reach the age of eighteen, 52% of them are married (Hess). Women in the United States were once seen as unequals in society and were at an immediate disadvantage. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck elucidates how society at the time devalued women through the character Curley’s wife.

Steinbeck displayed many major themes in his novel Of Mice and Men. Discrimination really stood out to me as one of those themes. Discrimination is everywhere and often times goes unnoticed. Discrimination doesn’t come in just one form, discrimination can be degrading people because of their race, age, gender, religion, height, disabilities, etc. Discrimination can happen to anyone, no matter who you are.

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty,” said Mother Teresa. Humanity has struggled against being left alone and being lonely for a long time. As a result, humans formed a society where they could be together. On the other hand, there are still people who are left out of the society. In other words, there are still people out there who are marginalized, not accepted fairly to the society. John Steinbeck shows the marginalized people’s lives in his novel, Of Mice and Men. In his novel, characters such as Lennie, George, Candy, Curley’s wife, Crooks, and even the ranch workers, are marginalized from the society. Ranch workers like George, Candy, and Lennie have nowhere to go, and they do not have anybody to care for them. Especially for Lennie, he is mentally challenged, too. Crooks, being the colored man, suffers from discrimination. Curley’s wife is constantly surrounded with loneliness. In Of Mice and Men, marginalized people who are neglected from the society, create a society of their own; they share their dreams and help each other out although they are all different from each other.