The Role Of Outcasts In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

“‘Nobody’d listen to you an’ you know it. Nobody’d listen to you’” (Steinbeck 81). Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck commentates on the symbolism of society’s mistreatment of different people with his characters. Evident in the 1930’s, many people were often considered as outcasts through their differences and society’s inability to assimilate them. Despite the efforts to restrain people of different backgrounds and values into limited molds, these people end up being shunned or forced to become merely shells of themselves. In the novel, Steinbeck illustrates a story of various fictional outcasts to commentate on and symbolize the the mistreatment and suppression of outcasts in the 1930’s as depicted through Lennie’s actions,

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The Role Of Outcasts In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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