Dominance over others Most people have the desire to establish dominance on others and have power over them even if they do not admit it. This aspect is quite common in people to be trying to obtain dominance. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck it is set in the Great Depression, the novel tells the story of two migrant workers, George and Lennie who both try to get a job and own their own farm. Some people George and Lennie meet have attempted to try and establish dominance over them. Steinbeck shows, through multiple people’s personalities that most of them desire dominance and power over others. Steinbeck demonstrates threw Curley the desire of dominance over other people. When Curley walks in after seeing George and Lennie and trying to get Lennie to talk he says “By christ, he’s gotta talk when he’s spoke to [...] well, nex time you answer when you're spoke to”(Steinbeck 25-26). Curley demands an answer from Lennie and denies any responses from George like he is in a higher state of power than they are. Curley says that Lennie needs to talk …show more content…
Curley does not take it litely and he “stepped over Lennie like a terrier, “What the hell you laughin at? [...] Then Curley’s rage exploded “come on ya big bastard, get on your feet, no big-son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me”(Steinbeck 62). This represents Curley’s rage when he gets his power and dominance over them destroyed and gets his pride torn apart. Even though Curley gets his dominance torn apart he attempts to get in a fight with Lennie to try to get it back. Although he could have fought anybody he decided to pick a fight with the weakest willed person who would panic if he was in a fight. Steinbeck uses words such as “terrier” meaning an animal who is fearless and is guarding his pride and