Loneliness"Of mice and Men"

isolation because the society in which he resides is racist. He is rejected from every group of people and cannot socially interact with others, just like Lennie who can’t socially interact properly because of his mental-disability. Crooks’ loneliness comes from rejection; others treat him unjust because he is different from them given that he is black. He isn’t allowed to participate in daily events with white people such as card games. He is treated unfairly and therefore acts the same way with the white people who have offended him. Crooks is fascinated by the friendship of Lennie and George, especially how close they are. He was curious and envious about it; in fact noticing that Lennie is retarded, he takes advantage of this situation to “torture” him mentally, to make him feel better and ease the pain of having other reject him. He is striving to gain sympathy and understanding from others. He even offers his services to Candy to work on their “dream ranch” to join the friendship and dream shared by Lennie and George, in order to leave behind him his lonely life. Candy, like Crooks is an outcast because his old age makes him different from the rest of the men on the ranch, but he always tries to communicate with them as much as he can and he offered his services to become a part of George and Lennie's friendship and dream, this is one of Candy's desperate attempts to find a place in society and meaning in life by making himself useful to someone, by proposing the various things he could do to show that his is in fact useful and could bring a lot in the dream as well. Candy has one true friend in the world, his dog, but when his dog dies, he felt more lonely than he was before. He offers everything that he had to support the friendship of Lennie and George, including money, he offers the biggest share of money to realize the dream as well as services hoping that the pair will “let” him help out. Curley's Wife's loneliness has a different source; her husband causes it. Even though Curley's wife is mentioned frequently, nobody wants to talk her because people are afraid of Curley; he is jealous and would start a fight with anyone who tried approaching her. She dresses heavily, in flashy colors to gain the attention of the ranchers and to lose her loneliness. Curley’s wife also notices that Lennie finds her “purty” and tries to talk to him and get close to him several times(she is very desperate to talk with a dumb such as Lennie).Her death, caused by mentally disabled Lennie, can be thought  as a positive but unluckily thing, because it ended his pain and loneliness, so she won’t have to worry about being lonely ever again with his husband Curley. Curley’s wife’s case of loneliness was the most severe throughout the novel. She struggled in her society to find somebody that she could befriend in vain.