Of Mice And Men Curley's Wife Discrimination Analysis

Imagine being discriminated by your community due to your ethnicity, or being the only women stuck in a loveless marriage, or having to kill your friend, and bury all chances of breaking free from the life of the average migrant worker. In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck develops a conclusion based off how people survived in a modern tragedy Crooks, the African American stable buck, is isolated from the community of migrant workers because of his race. When Lennie goes into the barn to see his puppy, he and Crooks have a conversation. “'Why ain't you wanted?' Lennie asked. 'Cause I'm black. They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black'” (68). Lennie is too kind-hearted and intellectually slow

After Curley's Wife leaves the bunk house, George says to Lennie, “'Don't you even take a look at that b***h. I don't care what she says and what she does. I saw 'em poison before, but I ain't never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her to be'” (32). George has barely even met Curley's wife, and already he is criticizing her. She is the only woman on the ranch, and she is with Curley, who George already doesn't like. Curley's wife is Curley's property, in a sense. So if George doesn't like Curley, then he automatically doesn't like Curley's wife. Nobody actually takes time getting to know her but instead making judgments because she is the only woman on the ranch. In a different sense, when Curley's wife is talking to Lennie while alone in the barn, she told him, “'I get lonely. […] You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How'd you like not to talk to nobody'” (87). Curley's wife is further isolated from the migrant workers because Curley tells her she can't talk to them. If she isn't supposed to talk to the workers, there is no way for her to be friends with anyone else on the ranch besides Curley. And because Curley's relationship with her is bad, she has no one to be with, and is separated from the rest of the workers on the

When asked by Lennie to “'tell how it is with us'” (14), George replies “'With us, it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us'” (14). George is saying that because they have each other, their lives are completely different than that of normal independent migrant workers. George and Lennie can talk to each other about anything, and rely on each other to do many things. Where ever they go, they know they can trust each other. Because they have traveled around together, they've formed bonds that other migrant workers don't have. They can always have someone they trust with them, someone who they know won't betray them. This companionship is vital to living a fruitful life. Then Lennie interrupts George over the campfire: “'But not us! A' why? Because... because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why'” (14). Lennie and George are convinced that their lives will be forever different that those of other migrant workers because they have each other to look after them. Because they have each other, and aren't alone like other workers, they are capable of doing to much more, such as their dream of “'[living] off the fatta the lan''” (14). They do not feel like their lives are headed nowhere, because they will always have each other to talk to