characters context

Question 1

Lennie

Answer 1

Mentally disabled, no awareness → attitude towards the mentally disabled (eugenic society, sterilisation act)

Question 2

Curley’s wife

Answer 2

A woman → misogyny, marginalisation, discrimination and loneliness

Question 3

Crooks

Answer 3

Physically disabled and black → experiences racism, loneliness and suffers due to his bad back (no compensation)

Question 4

Candy

Answer 4

Physically disabled and old → soon be deemed ‘not useful’ and got rid of (like his dog), suffers working with only one hand