Crooks, Candy and Lennie draw sympathy from the reader for their disabilities/disadvantages. Having disabilities/disadvantages on a plantation in the late 1930’s was a big deal. Working on a plantation was one of the only few places men could go to work. Having these disabilities/disadvantages can make it extremely hard for you to work and make the money you needed so badly. Here are a few of the disabled/disadvantaged men in the book.
Crooks is the stable keeper in the book. Crooks is the only “negro” on the plantation. He is excluded from everyone else on the plantation. In pages 66 and 67 it talks about Crooks’ bunk that he has all to himself. None of the other men want to share a bunk with a man of different race. He is very territorial of his bunk because that is all he has on the plantation along with the few personal belongings he keeps in his bunk. On top of being the only man of a different race, Crooks is also a cripple. As the narrator talks about his bunk in page
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On page 39 George says ”He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy”. This is a small part that shows that Lennie has a mental disability. He isn’t very smart and he can’t talk by himself. He has George always telling him what to do. George also protects him from the people that would make a big deal out of finding out what really is wrong with Lennie. People like this were not accepted at all in the time setting of the book. On page 41 George tells the men the story of Lennie touching a girls dress. He says that Lennie just likes to touch things and he doesn 't mean any harm. This is another hint at Lennie’s mental disability. Lennie just does what he wants, and he doesn’t really see the consequences of his actions. He doesn 't mean to do things in a bad way like people take it. He just isn’t capable of understanding what exactly is right or wrong until he does it and sees the reaction. In my opinion, Lennie is the most
Yes, Lennie was mentally retarded, and he got on peoples nerves, but he did not know what was going on. He was one hundred percent innocent. George had ties with Lennie from way back when, and some may wonder why he stayed with him. “ I ain’t got no people,” George said. “ I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone.
The vocabulary used by Lennie is not the best. The characteristics of Lennie shows that he is not the brightest person. He was drinking lake water that was not clean. He ened up putting his hat in all and took a big gulp from the water. There is are mistakes made by Lennie throughout the book.
but he doesn't know what he is doing. He ends up killing one of Slim's puppys by petting it too hard but that shows Lennie does not know his own strength and can't control how he acts. So when the incident in weed happened all he was trying to do was just touch the colorful dress. This is a second reason why George should be charged with murder because Lennie did not know what he was
One obstacle is gender equality, the ranch is a “male-dominant” society where women are seen as untrustworthy. The fact that Curly’s wife is the bosses wife is the true cause of her alienation. However, the simple fact that she is a female separates her from interactions with others as seen when the men refer to her as having “the eye” (28). Here the men refer to everything they think women are – a distraction and temptation for men, instead of actual human beings. Candy is also oppressed in a social inequality as he is afraid that when he is too old to work, he will be thrown out of the “ash heap”, a victim of a society that discriminates against the disabled and has no value for age or experience.
First off Crooks is the character that is held back in his journey towards freedom by his race. There are many examples where Crooks is insulted by his race, but there is this specific incident where George is laying down his cards and hears someone calling : “Stable buck, oooh stable buck!” And then, “Where the hell is that goddamn nigger?” This proves that in the 1930’s people were still racist and used to call African Americans names like nigger. And Crooks can’t really do anything because if he does he would probably get tortured or starved, and he can’t quit because it wasent his job, he was a slave.
As I Read "Mice And Men" I Came Across Many Different Characters With Many Different Personalities. The Most Sympathetic Character In This Book Is Lennie. Lennie Gets The Worst Treatment Because He Has A Disability. There Are So Many Reason Why I Feel Lennie Is The Most Sympathetic.
From all of the characters in the story, I feel the most for Lennie. Going along with the literary technique of naturalism, the fact that Lennie has a mental disability is because that is how he was born. There is nothing you can do that can change your heredity, and people judge Lennie on that all the time. George is the main culprit when he says that everything would be easier without having Lennie around. We all know that, but George doesn’t have to tell Lennie that to his face to make him feel worse about himself.
How do the disabilities of the major characters prove to enhance the quality of the story, Of Mice and Men? Their disabilities influence the plot because without Lennie, Crooks, or Candy the story would be uninteresting to the readers because their challenges cause the dramatic events in the story. All of the characters in the book work on the farm. Lennie has a mental handicap, Crooks is a black man with a crooked spine, and Candy is an old man with only one hand. Lennie has a mental disability that creates depth in the story.
George is the only one who really understands Lennie and he's the
In the first chapter of the book, George expresses his anger towards Lennie about how he always gets George in trouble. George tells Lennie, “you can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get. An’ that ain’t the worst. You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out.
He even had his own place in the barns harness room with his own bunk away from everybody else. Crooks was a very clean and hard working man who was very loyal to his job. He was very anti-social and would never allow the other workers to come in his room at all. In the story he was also an example of being lonely
Crooks was forced to sleep in a separate room next to the stable, apart from the bunks where the rest of the ranch workers resided. Crooks was unable to participate in anything that the rest of the ranch workers did. All of this was a result of his ethnicity. “ “Cause I’m black. They play cards, but I can’t play because I’m black.
Think about someone who can be shy at times, but can also be outgoing and protective over certain things. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie are two friends who take jobs on a farm to earn money so they can buy their own farm. Lennie has a mental disorder, but no one knows about it other than George, who protects him. Lennie gets excited easily, so to try to stay calm he likes to pet soft things. One of the men on that farm has a wife who lets Lennie stroke her hair because it’s soft.
In the book, Lennie is seen as this child-like man with a lower level of intelligence that just doesn’t know what’s happening around him. He is mentally handicapped and has no ability to understand abstract concepts like right from wrong. He does not intentionally do the things that he gets into trouble for but when he does, he is unable to understand the consequences of his actions. Lennie only defines his terms of consequences by whether or not George is “going to give me hell” or “George isn’t gonna let me tend to the rabbits no more”. He is often clueless of his actions and gets into various amounts of trouble because of this.
George is the only one that treats Lennie like a person all the time. He even treats him with the respect and care he deserves even before he loses him forever. George calmly talks Lennie and tell him, “No, Lennie. I ain’t never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s the thing