The Unfair Expectations of Society
Edward Lee
Mr. Mattern
Honors Lit.&Comp. 1
11 January 2013
The Unfair Expectations of Society
What holds society back from advancing is the ability of our civilization to degrade each other using a person's appearance instead of understanding and getting to know someone beforehand. Discrimination is often based on many qualities and abilities; some of the most clearly shown examples of prejudice in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men are race, age, and gender. The victims of these types of discrimination are Crooks, the black stable buck, Candy, the old, disabled swamper, and Curley's wife, who is unhappy and bitter about her life. Throughout the novel, these three characters ...
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room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn." (66 Steinbeck). Crooks has to live isolated from the others because he is not accepted in the bunk house simply because of his different skin color. This shows how unimportant he is to the others on the ranch that work with him. He is not seen as a regular human being; he is considered below humans and is compared to animals, "Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses." (66). The other men on the ranch have a separation between work and rest; they work, out on the ranch, and rest in the bunk house. They have an area to talk, relax, and play cards, but unfortunately for Crooks, he works where he sleeps. He lives like an animal alone in his hovel, even his medicines are scattered amongst the horse medicines. Later in the story, Lennie had wandered into the barn finding himself in the doorway of the stable hand's room, "Crooks did not see him, ...
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I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an' a cripple." (45). When Slim says that he doesn't realize that Candy is too, an old man and a cripple. This gets Candy thinking what will happen to him if he becomes useless. Will they shoot him too? Candy is constantly worried of what will become of him as soon as he is unable to work, which he fears might be soon because he only has one hand. He expresses these fears to George and Lennie, "I ain't much good with on'y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That's why they give me a job swampin." (59). Candy resembles his dog because they are both past their expiration date; they cannot work effectively and are unable to ...
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