The characters Candy, Curley's wife, Crooks, and Lennie all suffered from discrimination and alienation because of factors they cannot control. Candy is old and handicapped, Curley's wife is

Powerlessness is another theme in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." A person can be intellectually, socially, or economically powerless. Lennie is socially powerless because he is large and powerful, but does not have the intellectual capacity to control his impulses. Crooks in the novella was socially powerlessness because of the color of his skin and was alienated from others because of it. George and Lennie's dream of a farm and land of their own was out of reach because they did not have the money to buy it (before Candy chipped in). Throughout the Great Depression are long gone, economic powerlessness still exists today. A great example of economic powerlessness today is the reactant Enron scandal. Many employees who had trusted their life savings retirement money in Enron lost everythi

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