Sympathy For Crooks In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In the book of, “Of Mice and Men” there are many characters who deserve our sympathy, for instance there is Lennie, George,Curley,Carlson,Slim,Curley’s Wife,Crooks and several other characters. These characters make us feel sympathetic towards them weather is it because how they are treated or how they live their lives or how they behave. But although these characters deserve sympathy, Crooks and Curley’s Wife deserve more sympathy because of these reasons, Crooks is treated badly due to his race, as well he has a crooked spine meaning he is always in pain and Curley’s Wife because she is mislabeled as a whore, she doesn’t even have a name and she is lonely.

A reason the audience feels sympathetic towards Crooks is due to his race, and how he gets treated by people in the bunkhouse. Even Crooks acknowledges it by saying, “ ‘Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black.”(68) meaning he can’t play cards with the
When the author first introduces Curley’s Wife he says this about her, “She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.” (31) the author describes her, how she looks but the author does not give us her name at all. Instead he let’s the other characters give her names, this is why Curley’s Wife deserves our sympathy for her.

Although all the characters in “Of Mice and Men” do deserve our sympathy, Crooks and Curley’s WIfe deserve the most sympathy towards them because Crook is lonely and he is poorly treated due to his color of skin. As well Curley's Wife, she is not even given a name and she is mislabeled as a whore by mostly all the characters in the book of, “Of MIce and Men” no matter how crappy the other characters are treated they aren’t treated as poorly as these two characters, who deserve our