... judge one novel on the basis of another. John Steinbeck's most famous novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", is a protest novel, but is it right to give Of Mice and Men the same label without analyzing it? In order to make a decision one must take a look at the views of protest. In the first instance the reader must look for shown protest, as in racism, the treatment of old people, loneliness, and the treatment of people with mental ... (Steinbeck 27) and after George's inquiry, Candy begins telling about the black stable buck. The statement "Sure. Ya see the stable buck's a nigger- (Steinbeck 28)...

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