How Does Steinbeck Present Discrimination In Of Mice And Men

In the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, takes place in Soledad California and follows George and Lennie. George and Lennie, who has a cognitive disability had to walk to their new job. They arrived at the Farm and meet all the men, among these people is Candy. He tells them about Curley’s wife and how flirty she is, and George tells Lannie to stay away from her. They also learn that since they were there late the boss took his anger out on an African American man named Crooks. Later in the story Candy joins George and Lennie’s plan to get their own farm, and they only need one more month's pay. Lennie and Curley get into a fight and Lennie crushes Curley’s hand. But Slim saved Lennie by making Curley lie about what really happened to him. Lennie and Crooks talk in Crook’s room and Crooks tells Lennie about the racism that he receives from all of the other men. Later, Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife when he was touching her hair, and he runs away. George then finds Lennie and kills him before any of the others can. Discrimination is prevalent throughout the entire story in many

This is because the men in the bunkhouse usually don’t listen or care about what he says. This is shown in a quote where Carlson was talking Candy into killing his dog. “Candy said, “maybe tomorra, Le’ wait till tomorra.” “I don’t see no reason for it,” said Carlson. He went to his bunk, pulled his bag from underneath it and took out a luger pistol. “let’s get it over with,”(47)” This shows discrimination because Carlson doesn’t care about what Candy says and keeps trying to persuade Candy that killing his dog is the right thing to do. Even though Candy clearly doesn’t want to kill his dog Carlson doesn’t care and keeps trying to persuade him into doing it. And Carlson killed Candy's dog without Candy saying a real yes. So this evidence is convincing to me and shows that Candy is discriminated for his