Can all of the characters in Of Mice and Men be perceived as victims
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Can all the characters in Of Mice and Men
be perceived as victims?
Of Mice and Men is a book that describes the trials and tribulations of working class men and women in The Great Depression of the 1930's. In this essay I am going to be discussing whether some of the characters in Of Mice and Men are victims.
To start off with I have chosen Lennie. Obviously, Lennie is a victim of his own disability. Lennie has the mind of a child in the body of an exceptionally strong middle-aged man. He is also a victim of himself, because every time he gets hold of something that he really enjoys stroking and something that he really loves, he ends up killing it because he doesn't know his own brute strength. People take advantage of Lennie because they know that he is not going to go and tell anyone what they have said. A perfect example of this is when Lennie goes to see Crooks in the barn and Crooks says 'I can tell you anything with out you blabbing it about can't I you son of a bitch'. This is a perfect example of the above statement...