of mice and men

Another lonely character we're introduced in the novel is Crooks. He is lonely because he is excluded from the other people and from all the excitement in the bunk house. He can't play cards or chat to any one because if his skin colour. He says "this here's my room. I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse and you ain't wanted in my room". This is also shown when he goes to speak to slim about work, he does not enter "the stable but only put his head" because he know his not welcomed in the bunk house. The only time we the reader know he come into the bunkhouse was when Candy tells a story tells a story from the charismas when "they let the Nigger come in that night" this tells as how different he is from other's first they call him "Nigger" this means that he is not respected and no one cares and likes him furthermore his only allowed in the bunkhouse ones a year, they only so they could fight him. Crooks also shows that he is lonely in chapter four when Lennie and Candy come in to his room. At first he pretended that he was angry like when he said "you ain't wanted in my room". Actually inside he's pleased and excited because he doesn't normally get any company and is always alone. When he hears about the farm that George, Lennie and Candy are going in on, he wants to be involved too although he later changes his mind. Maybe he does that because his scared to say it or because of his skin colour or maybe he knows that they want expect him and he can't achieve that so he doesn't even bother he just gives up. This shows he wants friendship and equality but does not achieve it.

Curley's wife is lonely. This is obvious because she wants people to pay attention to her for example "her full rouged lips" and "cotton house dress and red mules". This seems very stylish for a farm and doesn't suit the environment. Furthermore the way she keeps on visiting the bunkhouse several times every day claiming that she is looking for Curley but really she is looking for company. We know this when she says "any you boys seen Curley?" She calls them "boys" because this is her being friendly and flirtatious. She is only pretending that she's looking for Curley but actually she knows where he is and she uses it is an excuse to be able to talk to them. Curley's wife is isolated from the men at the ranch. This is because she is the only female character at the ranch and she's the only one who is not a hard worker. This is not the girl you'd expect to find in a farm. She is also isolated because she is never given a name in the novel, she is only knows as Curley's wife. This tells us that she belongs to someone else, she's not respected because she's a women and she only belongs to Curley no one else besides Curley.

Lennie's death means that George's future will not be any different to the other men on the ranch. We knew that because when Candy spoke his greatest fear "you an' me can get that little place can't we, George? "Cant we, can't we George". He repeats the phrase "can't we" which shows he's really excited, he really wants it and it makes him sound childish like a little kid. After Lennie's death George is "the loneliest guy character in the world". After Lennie's death there's nothing to look ahead to after this incident George decides "I'll take my fifty bucks and I'll stay all night in some lousy cat house". He does that because he doesn't want the dream owns his own, because this wasn't his dream, it was both of their dream. Therefore he plans to spend his money like other migrant workers on short happiness, instead of fulfilling his dream. Now because of Lennie's death George and Candy is lonely. This tells us that George cares about Lennie more then him self. The main reason George shoots Lennie is because they are friends and he doesn't want any one else to do it. We know that because he makes sure Lennie is happy before he dies, George makes sure that Lennie is happy until the end. He talks about the things Lennie loves and wants to talk about, the last words which come out of Lennie mouth before he dies are "let's get that place now"!.

On the other hand, Lennie and George travel together and are friends. The way we the readers know that they're friends is the way George protects Lennie such as when Curley is attacking Lennie he says "I said get him." and tells him to fight back because he is protecting him and doesn't want him to get hurt. Lennie only fights back after George tells him to, which tells us that Lennie listens to George, Lennie is also protective of George, for example, when George goes to the cat house and crooks tells him "suppose he gets killed or hurt so he can't come back. Lennie answers back by saying, "george ain't hurt" "ain't nobody going to talk no hurt George". He is worried about his friends. Their friendship seems rather strange to other migrant worker. We know this because of the way he keeps on defending Lennie and keeps talking for him, eventually afterwards the boss says to George "you taking his pay away from him?" Apart from that all the other migrant workers say "I never seen one guy take so much for another guy". They're also different from the other ranch worker's because "we got somebody to talk to that gives a dame about us". All the workers hardly talk to each other they only talk to each other when they need something from each other, they all have secret but they do not share it with anyone.

Everyone on the ranch is lonely or isolated in same way. This means that the ranch is a place of isolation as suggested by the towns name Soledad. Also all the men are single, they have no family or relatives and only time this get company is at the "cat house". George and Lennie are not same "because.... Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you". The other characters also want to have someone to look after. This is shown by Candy wanting to join the scheme by putting in some money and Cooks lets them come in to his room. Finally Curley's wife wants to talk to anyone who'll listen but hardly anyone listens to her. In the end they all try not to be lonely but they fail. So in the end loneliness wins because at the time there was a lot of racist discrimination and also the Great Depression. This meant that they had no money or jobs in country. Therefore all the people had to migrate to other states to look for work. They had to leave their friends, their family and abandon their homes. Furthermore it meant people were always lonely because they constantly migrate around the state. The characters in the novel represent this loneliness.