Who is the loneliest character in 'Of Mice and Men'?

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Who is the loneliest character in ‘of mice and men’.

I think the loneliest character in ‘of mice and men’ is ‘Crooks the stable-buck’. This character is a very lonely person and leads a very miserable life because of this making the reader fell sympathetic towards him.

Crooks the stable-buck is lonely mainly because of his colour, there is a lot of racism at this point in history and black people were considered lower beings than white people and black people suffered greatly because of this and had virtually no rights to defend themselves, if they did they usually got killed. If it were not for this racism plagued environment then Crooks would probably make a success out of himself because he is actually one of the most intelligent people on the ranch.

Crooks is lonely because he is the only person who has a room to himself, he is isolated because of this, he has nobody and no-one to talk to and people who dare enter his room get a frosty reception,

‘you ain’t got no right coming into my room, this here is my room, nobody got any right in here but me, this shows that the room is his only right of possession and defends this indefinitely.

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He says ‘I ain’t wanted in the bunk-house’ which shows again he is left out of social happenings and left all by himself on a regular basis.

He says to people who come in his room; ‘you ain’t wanted in this room’ this is because he has no social skills and because he thinks why should anyone come in his room when vice-versa in unacceptable?

He lets people in eventually because he is so lonely, ‘come on in and set in a while’. He wants people to talk to but tries to hide this retaining the fact that he can ...

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The idea of this essay is a good one but it isn't really explored fully in the response. If Crooks was going to be the focus of the essay use him as the main point in the title; the title in this case suggests that a number of characters would be explored and a conclusion would be reached but this never materialises in the essay. 3 Stars