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power
Context
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After the Wall Street Crash money was scarce and even the richest men were left with close to nothing. Having money meant you had power, so most ranch owners had the majority of the authority on the ranch
Disempowerment of characters links to 1930s society, equality didn’t exist.
Finance, Race, intellect and gender all play a role in who has the most power and who is disempowered.
Burns poem, disempowerment means they have no control over their lives and shows that they can't face the inevitability of schemes going awry.
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Curley's wife
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she is OSTRASIZED from the rest of the ranch and made clear by her clothing, reiterating her sense of loneliness
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Permanently on the ranch, her only power held is through Curley’s economic power, hence itinerant labourers are scared of her.
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crooks
Crooks is a black American therefore he receives unequal treatment from other characters, segregation, room on the side of the barn separate from bunkhouse
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Crooks only has a power of superior intellect over Lennie, suggesting America was full of negative perceptions
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quotes
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Curley's wife has more authority refers to him with racist language ‘a n*’ and threatens to have him ‘strung up on a tree’
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George and Lennie
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they are poor itinerant laborers in search of jobs due to the Great Depression and high levels of unemployment.
the only power they have is through their close companionship, keeping their loneliness at bay
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the boss and curley
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Curley holds a level of authority on the ranch (automatically holds a level of power due to father, the boss), he holds a degree of insecurity and due to mockery by other men on the ranch
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