Loneliness in Of Mice and Men

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These are just a few of the times in which Candy has shown thoughtfulness.

The last character John Steinbeck has developed, Curley's wife, shows loneliness for three reasons. For one, she states, "I get lonely. You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley" on page 87, which shows that she has loneliness because she doesn't have anyone to talk to but Curley. Specifically, people won't talk to her because they know that Curley will get jealous and want to start a fight. In another reason, she says, "I'm looking for Curley" on page 31, which shows that she, made up an excuse to find adult conversation.

Candy does not seem to have a dream until he meets George and Lennie. He is swept up in the plausible reality of this dream, a dream he would probably be too scared to initiate by himself. Candy is not happy with his life on the ranch, but he doesn't think that there is anything else that he can do. He has one arm and is quite an old man, he used to have a dog that was also very old and someone else shot it for him.

He was very miserable after the death of his dog and he said, "I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to have let no stranger shoot my dog."

His dog was the only precious possession he had at the ranch and it was taken away from him.

He overheard George and Lennie talking about their dream and later approached them and told them his generous offer. He had more than half of the deposit money and George was very grateful of that and let him in on their once ‘’unattainable’’ dream

Steinbeck was of German and Irish ancestry.

Curley's wife tries to get the men to feel sorry for her but also has a powerful and mulipative side to her by threatening Crooks.

"I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it isn’t even funny." Curley's wife is abusing her power by using it to threaten Crooks and make him understand what kind of position he is in. She says this by threatening to get Crooks lynched, the hate of black people during this time is unimaginable.

The men in the barn would rather listen to a white woman over a black man. He helps them get closer to actually owning the ranch because he has a lot of money saved away in his bank and offers it towards the ranch.

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Crook's is also crippled in his back and because of this he works as a stable buck. Like Candy he also has nothing to look forward to. When Lennie tells Crooks about his and Georges dream of owning a ranch, he is very cynical;

'Every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a god damn one of 'em ever gets it'. Crooks mentions how George and Lennies dream will be unattainable but after hearing what Lennie has to say, he wants in but……………..

But after a while he believes that they ...

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