Discrimination In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Black men, women black and white, people with disabilities have been victims of discrimination. For a long time people were even going threw it, it was even going on during the great depression. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there are a few examples of how people were discriminated in that time. By examining the characters Lennie,Crooks, and Curleyś wife in of Mice and Men it is clear that there was discrimination on the ranch and it affected many lives negatively.
Lennie was one of the characters that was discriminated. People would call him dumb, and idiot because he would forget things. But what they didn't know was the lennie had a mental disability. In the novel George a character that travels with lennie After Lennie's

Crooks is a black male that works on the ranch as a stable buck. Crooks isn't allowed in the bunks with the other men because he is black he has his own room in the barn with the animals. He is called ¨Crooks¨ because when he was working one day he was kicked in the back by a horse and now his back in crooked. In the story Candy an old man that lives on the ranch states "They let the nigger come in that night. Little skinner name of Smitty took after the nigger. The guys wouldn't let him use his feet, so the nigger got him. If he coulda used his feet, Smitty says he woulda killed the nigger"(Steinbeck 20). Basically Candy is explaining how the boss treats Crooks and that Crooks is treated in a humiliating

Curley's Wife which was the only female on the ranch was described as a woman that got around. A whore is you would want to call her. She's called a bitch and people say that she gives men ¨the eye¨ when walking around. But all she wants is attention. She is married to a mean guy that wants her tomb always stay in the house and not do anything, it gets quite lonely for her. She also doesn't get a name in the book. She is only known as Curleyś Wife. When George and Lennie first meet her, George tells Lennie ¨Don´t you even look at that bitch. I don't care what she says and what she does. I seen ´em poison before, but i never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her¨(Steinbeck 32). In other words George is trying to say that girls are all like the ones at the whore house. That they will ruin you. And he doesnt want that for Lennie because George knows Lennie doesn't always understand because of his