White People Rule The World In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

White People Rule The World
Through the Characters George, Lenny, Carlson, Slim, Curley, Boss, crooks, Candy, Whit and Curley's wife, John steinbeck demonstrates that the well abled white men are of higher power having therefore more privileges compared to minorities.
Steinbeck does demonstrate this by having all the well abled white men go into town (George, Carlson, Slim, Curly, Boss, Whit). While the mental and physically disabled have to stay at the bunkhouse.(Lenny: has a mental disability, Crook: black and physical disability, Candy: missing a hand and old, Curley's wife: woman).
After all the strong characters leave to go to the town to drink and have fun Lennie, Candy, and crooks are all in crook’s room having a conversation about

the farm they plan to have. Later on curley's wife enters the room looking for curley and states” ‘ They left all the weak ones here (Steinbeck 77) ’ “. This shows that Steinbeck is portraying that the well abled white men are of more power than the disabled. The CD does this by curley’s wife saying “ ‘ they left all the weak ones here (Steinbeck 77) ’ “, This shows that curley's wife easily recognized everyone in the room isn’t dominate including her. Even furthering this, nobody in the room contest her claim that they are weak in any of numbers of ways. So while all of the dominant character are in the town having fun together, they left the minority at the bunkhouse back at the farm. By doing this Steinbeck is separating the dominate from the weak, lesser, or minority.
In the TED talk Violence Against Women, it’s a Men’s Issue, by Jackson Katz. He sections off a area in the presentation to discuss dominate how dominate people get removed from from competition, and have more power and privileges. “ ‘dominant systems maintain and reproduce themselves, which is to say the dominant group is rarely challenged to even think about its dominance, because that's one of the key characteristics of power and privilege, the ability to go unexamined, lacking introspection, in fact being rendered invisible, in large measure, in the discourse about issues that are primarily about us (1 min 14 sec paragraph 4).’ ” This quote relates to the theme in Of Mice And Men, because it talk about how the dominant people in society have more power and privileges. For example how all the dominate people went into town to have fun and drink, while all of the weaker people have to stay at the farm and wait for there return. this is demonstrated by how the book obviously sectioning off the weak from the strong, or the dominate from the minority.