Essay on Social Outcasts in John Stienbeck´s Of Mice and Men

In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Candy, Lennie, Crooks, and Curlys wife are all seen as four social outcasts as they each relate to a specific group in American Society. After reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and looking at these characters you can see that they are all social outcasts in someway. In Of Mice and Men the character Candy is an old ranch worker. Candy has been working on otheres farms for years, while working on one of these farms he lost one of his hands in a farm accident. Candy was seen as a outcast to the other rach hands just like Lennie, Crooks and Curlys wife. The reasons they are seen as outcast is different and is what seperated them into different groups in American Society that they can relate to. Candy†¦show more content†¦Because of his mental disability he does things that further put him out of the â€Å"normal† group of ranch hands. Lennie has a good friend in George but he is portrayed as being lonley in the book anyway. He just w ants to be like every one else on the ranch. Lennie said, I thought you was mad at me, George. No, said George. No, Lennie, I aint mad. I never been mad, and I ain now. Thats a thing I want ya to know. (6.87-88) Lennies only friend is George so Lennie does his best to not make him mad and get locked out by George. In Of Mice and Men the character Crooks is a stable hand who works with the ranch horses. He is also the only black man on the ranch because of this he lives by himself. Crooks is seen as an outcast because of his skin color and because he has been injured and that has afected his ability to perform the duties expected of him. Because Crooks is black he is seen as having less worth than the white ranch hands, because of this he is excluded from the rest of the ranch hands and seen as an outcast. Because he was injured he and his ability to work was lessend he cant work as hard ans the other ranch hands. Crooks always seems like he is angry at every one when he is realy just lonely and wanting to be friends with the other ranch hands. Crooks, Lennie and Candy end up getting to know each other more and helping each others lonelyness. In Of Mice and Men the character Curlys wife is th e