John Steinbeck's Treatment Of Women In Of Mice And Men

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John Steinbeck explains in Of Mice and Men how people are treated even though they have mental disabilities and how minorities and women were treated. Steinbeck portrays Lennie as a mentally disabled person living in the great depression in california.He and George travel around together and they work together and George looks after Lennie because he gets into a lot of trouble because he is mentally disabled and can 't understand things like a normal person would. People with mental disabilities are usually locked up in cage for the rest of their life or they are simply shot to death. Steinbeck portrays Curley’s wife as a flirtatious person because she doesn’t like Curley and she wants someone to talk to her. And he shows her as not important

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