Are the characters in Of Mice and Men stereotypes?

Answer 1

At the beginning of everyone's description Steinbeck uses a stereotype to describe them, but later plunges into each characters' personalities and highlights the silliness of these stereotypes. Steinbeck seemed to mock stereotypes in 'Of Mice And Men' through compelling the reader to sympathise with the victims of prejudice. Curley's wife is a perfect example of this as she is at first called derogatory terms such as "tart" etc. But later Steinbeck portrays her life of loneliness and sadness, influencing the reader to feel a sense of anger at all the men for considering her to be a "tart"

Crooks is another character that Steinbeck has used to show the amount of anger he feels towards the racism against African Americans during this time.