Steinbeck uses characters and setting to illustrate that social status impact a person's capability to succeed in a world of exploitation, during the Great Depression. Curley's wife and Crook are the main components that Steinbeck uses to explore this theory of social status; is power. These two characters contrast each in many ways; they’re sexuality and race but, they’re personality are similar in some ways. The period which Of Mice and Man was composed by Steinbeck has an important impact on the message illustrated through Crook and Curley’s wife. In this 1900s a black man had little rights and was pushed about by white capitalist such as Curley’s wife. When he is in his room and Curley’s wife enters he retreats in fear of her power; “Listen
