Of Mice And Men Relationship Between Curley And His Wife

I enjoyed reading these two chapters and still am continuing to enjoy this novel. I look forward to reading more to see what else happens in the story. The two characters who make me the most angry would have to be curley and his wife. Curley is a mean, tempered man who I noticed in the first two chapters was an angry person and he continues to be this way through the third and fourth chapters. His temper and anger is particularly evident in the third chapter when he tries to pick a fight with Slim and ends up getting in a fight with Lennie who has still done nothing to him. I appreciated how the other men stood up for Lennie when they decided that if Curley told on Lennie and got him fired the men would tell everyone the truth about the fight which would embarrass Curley. Curley agrees not to

Crooks, who is a black character in the novel is evidently discriminated against in the book, and as a black female, I am able to understand the discrimination he faces. Crooks lives in his own room because the white and the black people are not allowed to live together which causes him to feel lonely and isolated. I understand why he feels this way as a person who also looks different and feels alone because of it. Crooks also says in chapter four he isn’t allowed to play cards with the rest of the guys because he is black. All this related to the books theme of powerlessness and how Crooks has no power unfortunately because of the color of his skin. Thankfully, I have never experienced not being able to do the things Crooks is unable to because of remarkable people who have come before me. People such as Dr. Martin Luther King who fought for inequality between races and hearing from my grandparents and other family members of the racial injustice they faced allowed me to relate this part of the book to