Discrimination In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Discrimination in society is a quotidian issue for citizens in the United States. Instances of discrimination come in many configurations with the most popular being racism. Discrimination does not disclose itself to only one person, but to a whole race and ethnicity group. John Steinbeck's short story, Of Mice and Men, displays the ongoing ideology of discrimination for people who are considered the minority through the life of Crooks with him being a man of color.

Racism has come to be one of the most frequent forms of discrimination in society. During the timeline through civilization, discrimination towards people of color has been in effect in more ways than possible. In the story Of Mice and Men, Crooks was constantly being discriminated

This happens in more ways than imaginable. One would think school is a safe place to be for sending your child to learn and grow as an individual, but quick to find out, your child is facing discrimination inside the classroom solely because of the melanin pigmentation they have as their skin type. A mother experienced a heart wrenching reality of the disgust life offers when she found out her child has been a victim of racism and discrimination. Robert E. Lee High School located in San Antonio, Texas was a place where dreams were diminished and people of color were looked down upon such as this mothers child who obtained a darker skin complexion. The teacher found umpteen excuses to kick the child out of their classroom knowing all reasons were figments to their imagination. On a random day, this teacher felt angry towards the student and decided to once again pick on them and this time get the Division of Child Protection and Permanency phoned due to the child’s uniform being a little dirty. When asked why there was hostility and pent up anger towards the student, the teacher replied how “‘[they] don’t want this student back in [their] class ever again’” (Farmer). The school then tried to vindicate the teacher’s background by simply teaching the teacher a lesson of how discrimination is wrong. Silence rested upon this situation for the remainder of the time being. A close related situation happened to another person of color, but in the novel Of Mice and Men. A conversation between Curley’s Wife and Crooks took place which ended with them having an argument with Crooks telling her to not go into a colored man’s room anymore and that he will tell Curley about her activities. Curley’s Wife became filled with anger and called Crooks the “n” word and telling him that she can “‘get [him] strung upon a tree’” in a blink of an eye (Steinbeck 75). This was