Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Crooks is the stable boy, he is neat, likes books and is pretty quiet. He is also black, because of this he is discriminated be the other men at the farm. This prejudice leads Crooks to be extreme isolated, left to tend the horses alone. When Lennie tries to make friends with Crooks he reacts defensively, as the text states, “Crooks scowled, but Lennie's disarming smile defeated him. "Come on in and set a while," Crooks said. "'Long as you won't get out and leave me alone, you might as well set down." His tone was a little more friendly.” This quote shows that since Crooks hasn’t had any friends for so long that he almost can't deal with someone trying to be nice and interact with him.

The character Crooks has shown loneliness throughout the whole story and that drives him to a point where he doesn’t want to be existent to all the other men. In the middle of the book Lennie and Crooks start a conversation and Crooks explains how he’s feeling. Steinbeck writes, “‘They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me’”(68). Crooks doesn’t get much sympathy from the men because he is black. He is so desperate to play cards with the guys, but all of them leave him out and makes him feel even more lonely. Crooks experiences the most desolation because the men tell him that he “stinks” and can’t play cards because he’s “black. In addition to the last example, the novel also explains in the story how separated Crooks is from everybody else and shows us how alone he actually is. Crooks is the most lonely character in the novel and it shows by his actions and personality. Steinbeck shows, “This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud, aloof man. He kept his distance and demanded that other people keep theirs” (67). He felt desperate enough to tell the men to keep their distance so he

The characters in Of Mice and Men experience loneliness in various ways to each other through the story. Many

The modern world, filled with loneliness and desperation portrayed by over 40% of the population. Loneliness, described as being isolated or having a feeling of little importance, or having little companionship with others. Everyone feels the loneliness creep upon them at some point in their lives. As we feel lonely, we feel the impact and must react some way to cope with the feeling and feel better with ourselves. As seen in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the devastating impact of loneliness on human beings is demonstrated through Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy.

     "Of Mice and Men" is a play written by John Steinbeck that focuses on life during the mid 1930's. This play has many recurring themes, and one of these themes is that of loneliness. This loneliness is because of the intolerance of society on those who are different. The underlying, yet stunningly obvious, theme of loneliness can be found in many characters with many examples. This loneliness due to isolation and intolerance is found in the characters of Candy, because he is old and useless; Crooks, because he is black and crippled; and Curley's wife, because she is a beautiful woman and the only girl on and all guy ranch.

Loneliness plays a large role in developing themes and characters throughout the novel Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is a story about the lives of most American workers during the Great Depression. The story follows two friends, George and Lennie, as they try to get enough money to buy their own piece of land in Salinas, California, which seems like an impossible dream. Along the way, George and Lennie meet many other workers struggling with a common problem, loneliness. Throughout the story, it is made clear that everyone is lonely and is longing for companionship, even though no one can truly find friendship in the harsh world they live in. Three of the loneliest characters in the novel are Candy, Curley’s Wife, and Crooks.

Loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company. In Of Mice and Men there are tons of lonely characters but, the top three loneliest characters are Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife. The most lonely character is Crooks because he is black and all the ranch workers stay away from him. The second lonesome character in the novel is Candy because he has no family left and he had a dog but then his dog was killed. Finally, the last character is Curley's wife because she is the only girl near the ranch so she has nobody to talk to.

Crooks is one of the loneliest people in the book, he suffers because he is black and is living in a racist town with all white people. He lived in a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn isolated from all the other

In the novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, he shows the theme the pain of loneliness all throughout the story. Steinbeck demonstrates this theme in three main characters; Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s Wife. These three characters express this theme in multiple ways throughout this story. The first character introduced to us, that demonstrates the pain of loneliness, is Candy. Candy in an old man who works on the ranch and has only one hand, his left hand.

Loneliness “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty” (Mother Teresa). In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, many of the characters fight with loneliness. George, Crooks, and Curley's wife deal with loneliness throughout the novel. All they want is to feel wanted, accepted, and to know someone actually cares about them. John Steinbeck uses loneliness as one of his strongest themes in his novel, written during the Great Depression to emphasize the American society.

When you first meet Candy, he says, “‘When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go, an I can’t get no more jobs’” (Steinbeck 60). At the ranch, Candy has lost a hand in a farm accident and then loses his dog. After Candy lost his only companion, he expresses that he feels so alone and has nothing that he would rather get shot. He also says, “I could of hoed in the garden and washed dishes for them guys [...] His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump’” (Steinbeck 95). Candy at first reflects on his dream of living with others, but he quickly realizes that these dream are only an

Crooks was an African American man that was completely avoided and had no communication with anyone on the ranch. Crooks was so unwanted that he was not even allowed to sleep in the bunkhouse with everyone else, he had his own room in the Horse Stables. Crooks was so lonely that he felt sick, “A guy needs somebody- to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't

During the depression, many of the people lost their jobs and were looking for work which leads to the story of George and Lennie who are traveling to find a job. The job they take is in the town of Soledad, California at a local ranch, and on the ranch George and Lennie meet many new people including three very different people who all have one thing in common, loneliness. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, loneliness plays a major role and in the novel three very different characters display loneliness. Many instances of loneliness are shown through Curley’s wife, Candy, and the ranch’s stable buck, black man, Crooks.

However given the conditions of the time period, loneliness is a common theme. Today there is a lot more tolerance of different kinds of people. During the era Of Mice and Men was set in, things were very different. In Of Mice and Men there is Lennie, who is mentally handicap, Crooks who is Black, Curley's wife who is obviously a woman and Candy who is an elderly fellow. Each one of them is treated differently because of the way the

He's getting old, and after hearing about George and Lennie's dream, he wants in. " Jus' as soon as I can't swamp out no bunkhouses they'll put me on the county.... I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs" (Steinbeck 60). Candy has been on this earth for a while now, and all he ever had was his dog until Carlson, another character in the novel, convinces Candy that the dog needed to be shot and killed. Candy loved his dog, and he proves it with his words.