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Of Mice And Men Crooks Loneliness Analysis

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Loneliness is something that all the characters had to go through at one point in the story. One of the characters that I thought was the most lonely was Crooks. Crooks was isolated from everyone at the ranch and had no one to turn to. Crooks did not have any family and was a slave who wasn’t treated fairly. That made him even more lonely. For example, when Lennie asked Crooks about being wanted Crooks says, “ Why ain't you wanted? Cause I’m black. They say I stink” (Steinbeck 68). Crooks never was included in anything with anyone. He was isolated by himself and had no one. Steinbeck's overall message about loneliness is that,life alone on the ranch deprived people of their happiness. 2. The ending of the book is not inevitable. To be able

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