Color In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Have you ever taken a personality quiz test? One about your signature color and such? Well I think if the book Of Mice and Men would have taken one of those quizzes It would be the color light grey, the color of fog. I think it would be this color because it has unseen unexpected turns, the prejudice and inequality towards certain characters and it's a very serious ending. One reason why Of Mice and Men is a light grey is because it has unseen twists and turns is the plot. Since grey is misty/hazy and unclear sort of color I feel it hides the next event very well especially in the ending of the book. (Steinbeck 91). In the end, Curley’s wife and George were talking and Curley’s wife was bragging about her curly hair and she said that Lennie could touch it, which he did. Though apparently he was messing up her hair, for she got mad at him and started yelling at him to stop but Lennie panicked and grabbed her hair making her scream …show more content…

Crooks already is being treated differently because he lived in a small room in the barn whereas the rest of the men lived in the bunkhouse. ““ ’Cause I'm black. They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me.”” (Steinbeck 68). In this quote Lennie had just walked into Crooks’s room and he acts very defensively saying that Lennie's not wanted in there just like he’s not wanted in the bunkhouse. It really comes to show that really people of color of commonly called “nigers” in the book were treated with little dignity and respect. This is a very serious topic and often times serious matters are associated with grey. I personally feel like grey is a solemn color, capable of hiding things, big or small and as much as we may hate to admit it, equality was not popular back then. Back then white males were the only people with authority and

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