A Comparison Of Racism In Of M

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and were unable to vote. Blacks were also given the menial jobs such as servants and stable bucks and not given a decent wages and credit they deserved.
Ageism was also present in the 1930’s society. Old people were not treated with respect and were also often given menial low pay jobs.
Steinbeck explored the social issues of the time ( such as ageism, sexism, racism and the poor) in his fictional novels. ‘Of Mice and Men’ reflects these social issues.
Curley’s wife is discriminated against because she is a woman. She is isolated and lonely as she is the only female on the ranch. Curley’s wife represented the way that women were treated in the 1930’s. In the story ‘Of Mice and Men’ Curley’s wife is seen as a second class citizen.
Steinbeck never names Curley’s wife throughout the story and the Authorial purpose of this is to obviously show that Curley’s Wife is defined due to her relationship with Curley. The ...

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complications and disagreements with her mother over her wanting to go ‘in the movies’ due to an offer she had from a man, she is forced to quickly make an escape from home and makes a quick and poor choice to marry Curley.
Discrimination against women is also demonstrated within the book when in conversation the subject of a particular whore house arises between the ranchers. This section also portrays to the reader women being treated as objects. During this section George is invited by Whit to visit a ‘whore house’ in town. This also has the effect of showing us how lonely the ranchers must be. The whore house provides a un complicated sex service for the ...

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