"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck is a novella full of characters that represented different aspects of the world during the trying times of the Great Depression(a microcosm). Many characters in the novel were prejudiced by others because of age,skin color,gender, or a handicap. The feelings of lonliness, alienation, powerlessness, and discrimination that the characters experience on a Californian ranch are a result of their heredity and environmental limitations (societal views …showed first 75 words of 517 total…

…showed last 75 words of 517 total…of a farm and land of their own was out of reach because they did not have the money to buy it (before Candy chipped in). Throughout the Great Depression are long gone, economic powerlessness still exists today. A great example of economic powerlessness today is the reactant Enron scandal. Many employees who had trusted their life savings retirement money in Enron lost everything. These people were left penniless and powerless with nowhere to turn.