People had to look for work. They migrated from place to place and were called “itinerant workers”. The itinerant workers had a very lonely life because they moved from place to place. These people had left family, homes friends and all other luxury to look for a job. Something had happened in California as well it was a disaster there was a sandstorm that wrecked all the farms and people had to leave their own land to look for a job.
Lennie had been separated when he was a baby and was raised by his aunt Clara. George had a relationship with aunt Clara so when she died George was the one who had to take care of him and lennie and George went to work in different places” Him and me was both born in Auburn.Lennie who is a little slow needed George to help him out and to guide him, George needs lennie so he has protection and someone to talk to. There friendship also worked because took care of each other. Lennie is slow he doesn’t listen to any one when lennie and George reached a pool George told lennie not to drink too much he told him to stop but he didn’t so this part shows that they take care for each other. People were surprised that George and lennie were friends because they were no friends at that time people were alone and people also find the novel surprising because lennie is kind of dumb and people ask themselves that how can George stand lennie. At the end of the novel, George shot lennie in the back of the neck. This may seem that they don’t like each other but George is doing the right thing because curley and his friends were going the shoot (lennie in the bottom so he would suffer a lot) but George shot him in the back of his head so he cant feel it so what John Steinbeck is saying is that George really does care about lennie.
Another lonely character is Curley’s wife. She is the only woman in the ranch so she has no one to talk to. But she goes to flirt around with other ranch workers but if Curley saw her flirting with other men he would go beat them up but if any one touched him he would be fire them because his dad owns the ranch. Curley is really weak in real he just shows off.
In the novel there are quite a few characters that are lonely of whom is an old man with one hand: Candy had lost his hand and now he is old and useless in some ways. Carlson is the one that had shot candy’s dog because he was too old and he used to smell awful. When George and Lennie are talking in the bunkhouse about their dream they didn’t know that candy was listening to them and after he realizes that he could join them because he had his hand lost and he had $350 in the bank. He done this because he was getting old and he could do something without being forced to.
Another lonely character is Curley’s wife. She is the only woman in the ranch so she has no one to talk to. But she goes to flirt around with other ranch workers but if Curley saw her flirting with other men he would go beat them up but if any one touched him he would be fire them because his dad owns the ranch. Curley is really weak in real he just shows off.
Another one of the lonely characters is Crooks. He’s the stable buck and he has a crooked back because a horse had kicked him there. He is the only black person and there aren’t any black people in the ranch not even a black person in miles. At this time there was racism everywhere. Crooks was not allowed to go in the bunkhouse and he has to live on his own. All he does is that he reads books everyday he has some dirty ones on the top of the shelf.
He was isolated from the other ranchers it had a big effect on him and so he demanded people to keep their distance and he kept his rights” You got no right to come in my room” This is my room. “Nobody got a right to be here but me”. He told lennie that he was lucky that he has George he has no one no friends.
Dipen Patel
English
11 E
