I feel sorry for Curley’s wife because she is the only woman on the ranch and no one cares about her. She feels isolated because her husband Curley isn’t nice to her because she says “I can’t talk to nobody but Curley “this shows us that she has nobody and Curley is not interested in her, which causes her to feel lonely and sad for something her marriage to Curley makes worse. Also because she is the only woman on the ranch she is set apart from others. This shows that she has nobody to socialise with. Curley her own husband ignores her he does not regard his wife as a person needing love, but rather as an object which can be put aside and pushed around. She has no one else to talk to but Curley. She also notices that she always gets rejected or ignored, by the other ranch members, and she always ask them “what’s the matter with me? “Ain’t I got the right to talk to nobody” this suggests that nobody cares about her and she gets angry that everybody ignores her she also says “Seems like none of them care how I got to live”.
Also she tries to make a conversation with Lennie and she acts nice towards him and makes him have sympathy, for her because she says “I never get to talk to nobody” This referred to when she talks to Lennie and she comes across as a nice person. Curley’s wife self-obsession with herself lead to her death, at this point the writer tries to make you have sympathy for Curley’s wife because she is calm and friendly towards Lennie. She also talks about her emotions that have been building up inside of her because she says, “Could have been in the movies and had nice clothes” the writer makes the reader feel sorry for her because her dreams haven’t been fulfilled, and she is self-obsessed with herself. Also when she is speaking to Lennie she makes sure he is listening because she says “you listening” this shows us that she rarely gets to speak to anybody, so she makes sure that she gets the full attention she needs when she does get a chance to speak to someone, because she never gets any attention from Curley.
Curley’s wife is always going around chatting up other men to get attention. She flirts with them deliberately to get attention and these causes Curley to become hot headed. But nobody listens to her because she says to them “I never get to talk to nobody” this shows us that no one really trusts her and she is not treated as a real person. This is because no one really cares about her. She also goes round asking everyone “have any of you seen Curley” she uses this as an excuse to talk to people. All the men on the ranch keep away from her because they see her as trouble so they don’t flirt back with her because they are afraid of what Curley might do also she is seen as Curley’s property because during the 19th Century, women were seen as possessions of their husbands who were to stay at home also she is an ideal woman and house wife and she is limited to do things. Whereas in modern times she would be allowed to do what she wants.
The men at the ranch always tend to put Crook down and try to make him feel as though he is worthless, and he doesn’t mean anything to them. He is treated differently because his black. Crook has a lower status than the other members of the ranch, and he feel’s discriminated because of his colour, because of his colour Crook lives in a small room by himself at the barn. Crook is so used to the fact that that he is constantly isolated he gets suspicious when anyone tries to become friends with him. This is why when Lennie came in to his room, and tried to talk to him he became so suspicious that he tried to drive Lennie away.
Crook is lonely because he is isolated from the other ranch members because of his colour. In those days society was racist to black people so they were treated differently from everyone else. Crook says “they say I stink. Well I tell you they all stink to me!” This shows that Crook is angry with the white people and the way that they treat him, so Crook is trying to say that there attitude or personality towards black people stinks. This shows that Crook has been treated unfairly compared to everyone else.
Crook has no dreams for his future which gives him the feeling; he is going to be trapped on this lonely ranch for the rest of his life.
Crook is an employee at the ranch. He injured his back in an accident and now his cripple. Crook is the only black person at the ranch and he is isolated because of his colour, he can’t go to the bunk house or socialise with other men. In those days black people were treated differently from everyone else because of their colour. The other members of the ranch referred to him as a ‘nigger’ this was because racism was taken for granted in those days. The ranch members do it to insult him when they call him a nigger it’s because Crook has no status on the ranch so he doesn’t deserved to be called by his name because his black. In modern times this would be unacceptable for anyone to be treated this way.
I feel sorry for Crook because he is treated unequal from everyone else and because of his colour and he feels I isolated from everyone else because he doesn’t get to socialise with anyone else and nobody invites him
Crook and Curley’s wife all suffer from discrimination and prejudice resulting in loneliness and isolation. They both learn how to cope with their loneliness by been interested, in Lennie and George’s relationship. The character in the book is unable to find their way out of their loneliness.