... . If everyone knew how she felt maybe she wouldn't feel the way she does. Curley's wife's loneliness and her dirty ways caused her to be killed by Lennie at the end of the book Discrimination Discrimination is not just based on skin color, but also on age and gender. A book that shows this is John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, a story about two friends, that have a dream to live ... this ranch. That's why they give me a job swampin'. (pg. 29). Throughout the book Candy keeps to himself, away from others, because he's rejected by others, just like Crooks and Curly's Wife. Candy, a sweet ol...

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... is a black man and is the only black character in the story to be black. He is and outcast in the novel, he keeps a distance from everyone and expects everyone to do the same. He feels that his room is the only place that he has for himself, were he can relax. In this room he gets lost in many of the book he reads. Crook just like the name implies has ... that no one achieved their dream and the characters just grew awry. The novel used foreshadowing to clue the reader on what will occur to the dreams of the George and Lenny. John Steinbeck gives an early foreshadowing clue, which was t...

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... , a story filled with love and pain. The stories tell us not only of the lives of the poor who seek to live off the land, but of the struggles of all people. Of Mice and Men, The Pearl and The Red Pony are a Steinbecken trilogy of naturalistic philosophy. Ever since Midas' lust for gold, it appears to be that man has acquired a greed and appetite for wealth. Juana, the priest, and the doctor all undergo a change ... reducing himself to the status of an ordinary man. George and Lennie are just like all the other ranch hands in that they have a hopeless dream of owning their own farm on th...

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