Of Mice and Men controlled assessment

What effect does prejudice have on minor characters in of mice and men?
The prejudice effect that Steinbeck has on the minor characters is that they’re treated poorly with no respect or freedom at all and always under control by the worse people that has a big advantage over them because they’re the boss of the farm they work on. There will also be some talk about the minor characters known as something else instead of their real names using racial slurs or any other names don’t want to be called or known as those names that the farmers make up for them.
With being treated poorly only some of the minor characters are treated poorly. With Crooks he always has to do work with an injured back constantly and he’s mostly called the Negro or the N word by the majority of the farmers that are there. Crooks also gets rejected by the farmers from socialising with them for the fact that he’s black. As Curley’s wife is always getting moaned or shouted at by Curley because she wants to be around the farmers to flirt but that’s a wrong thing to do if you’re married. But even if she’s just being friendly and wanting to socialise she would just get moaned or shouted at by Curley. Some of the farmers also reject Curley’s wife from them because they’re afraid if Curley would use his father’s power to fire the farmer or beat the farmer up himself because he’s an angry character that’s not afraid of a fight. Crooks himself rejected Curley’s wife at one point for no trouble “Maybe you better go along to your house now. We don’t want trouble.”
How the characters get no respect: This almost links up with being treated poorly. With crooks being known as the Negro or the N word, he also gets called those names too I mean he does have a name but instead the farmers call him disrespectful names. “Yes sir. Jesus, we had fun. They let the n***** come in that night. Done pretty good, too. The guys wouldn’t let him use his feet, Smitty says he woulda killed the n*****. The guys said on account of the n*****’s got a crooked back, Smitty can’t use his feet.” This paragraph on page 22 shows how crooks get no respect. All he gets from the farmers are racial slurs. Curley’s wife doesn’t even get that much respect from others herself. Even though she’s known as “A tart” like she is. But even if she wants to be friendly, like I said Curley would have a problem with that even at one point of the book when she was flirting with George in the barn which of course is bad but even if she wasn’t Curley came in and told her to get back to the house so she replies with “you don’t own me Curley.” So she gets no respect from Curley and she feels she has no freedom which I will talk about soon.
No freedom at all. The minor characters I’ve been talking about already looks like they have no freedom at all, but there is more on what I have to say about their freedom. With Crooks you can easily see how he has no freedom. He’s constantly working with probably fewer breaks than the others or no breaks at all. He can’t even own a house outside the farm area; instead he has his own place in the farm area itself in fact that’s his only break from everyone there. Curley’s wife only had freedom before she got married to Curley; she still has some kind of freedom only behind Curley’s back. The kind of freedom she gets is going around the farm talking, socialising or flirting with them. She enjoys doing those kinds of things all the time but not when Curley caught her on the spot doing those things. At one point as I said earlier when Crooks rejected or told her to go home she was fed up with not being allowed to socialise. She said “Well I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?” As for Crooks, the only freedom he gets is staying in a barn to rest, read a book or sleep because he’s probably exhausted from working with an injured back.
Under control by the big people. So as you already know everyone is working in a farm of course there’s going to be a boss controlling the business like all jobs or companies. But in this case some people are taking a big advantage of that power over people. Like Curley himself. He is always telling his wife to go home or go away from the men; wouldn’t she just leave him by now? She could but Curley’s father is the boss of the whole farm, Curley is probably loaded with his father’s money and Curley himself can get anyone kicked out of the business and if he can do that to his wife then where would she go? Crooks is under control just like other people, but he’s being used wrong. You can’t work with an injured back. Even if he didn’t have a broken back his not allowed socialising with the other farmers because he’s black. There’s one quote from the book when he has an outburst of being sick of this. Lennie ask Crooks during a conversation “Why ain’t you wanted?” Crooks reply with in anger “Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.” In Crook’s outburst it’s not only the boss keeping him socialising, it’s the other farmers themselves rejecting him from them because he is black.
Overall it’s the weak people that can’t do anything about getting treated disrespectfully from almost everyone in the farm. Crooks is black with and injured back gets treated different from nearly everyone in the farm like he’s nothing. Curley’s wife never gets to talk to anyone because of Curley himself being an over protective control freak husband and the farmers are too scared to talk to her or Curley would attack them.