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Discrimination In Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

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Discrimination – the destroyer of dreams

“I ain’t much good with only one hand,” bemoans Steinbeck’s character ‘Candy’. The disabled farmhand works his best on the farm in “Of Mice and Men”, but nobody can see past his injury. Ageing, and weak, he is fearful: “I won’t have no place to go, and I can’t get no more jobs.” The poor man has just had his old dog put down, and himself fears going out the same way too.

John Steinbeck wrote the controversial novella in 1937, creating an emotionally rich world of characters with a depth beyond their characteristic disabilities. Each one pleading, “see me as who I am, give me a fair go.” The disabled characters seem richer than those ‘normal’ – these folk are more than just their disability.

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