Sunday, 20 May 2012

Why are Candy, Lennie, and Crooks considered outcasts in Of Mice and Men?

Crooks, ,
and Candy each suffer from situations that still cause discrimination today: race, mental
disability, and age. In addition, Crooks and Candy both have physical handicaps.


Crooks is black and so is shunned by the other ranch hands, who won't share the bunk
house with him. They tell him he "stinks," and he is forced to sleep in trough of
straw off the harness room of the barn. (He has made the room his own, showing his intelligence
with his books.) He spends a good deal of time alone because the other men don't much want to be
associated him, and he has learned to accept being lonely. Curley's wife...

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