One example of this would be in seeing how power shifts between people and how power can go straight to someone's head. Everyone has a different way of obtaining power, lots of times based on someone's race and power (a topic to be discussed later); however, one will do a plethora of things to get it, not thinking of how the means to acquire this power affects others. An example of where Of Mice and Men shows this is where Crooks, a man who rarely sees power due to his race, sees an opportunity at power over Lennie, and without thinking of the consequences this has on Lennie, jumps out to get that power. Crooks says to Lennie on page 71, "S'pose [George] don't come back no more." and then subsequently on the next page, "'Well, s'pose, just …show more content…
This gets to the height of Crooks' craziness until he becomes almost maniacal, saying this: "Crook's face lighted with pleasure in his torture." (Steinbeck 71). Crooks becomes almost delirious, the mental domination over Lennie all too pleasing to him. Furthermore, in understanding human nature, one must inspect how gender and race change people's points of view of others; there are some superb examples to examine in Of Mice and Men. A big part of how people interact is the socio-economic status of a person, their race, gender, and even religion. These deductions and conclusions people form before getting to know said person can sometimes happen subconsciously due to social norms society feeds us. For example, there are stereotypes that all Jews are good with money because a thousand years ago, Jews were bankers because it was against Christianity to charge interest on money loaned. However, many of these stereotypes are not true. An example of this is where Curley's Wife is talking to Lennie, expressing what some might call depression on page 86: "'I get lonely,'" and then, "'I can't talk to nobody but Curley.'" (Steinbeck 87). This eventually leads to her death.