Curley’s wife is lonely as she can’t talk to anyone apart from Curley and readers often feel sorry for her and we all know that she doesn’t love Curley, so she flirts with the other guys at the ranch and she acts like a tart according to the men, also the men think that she’s a attention seeker. In the story Curley makes his wife stay at home and Curley doesn’t like it when his wife talks to other men in the ranch “Curley looked threateningly about the room where the hell is slim?” This shows that Curley thinks Slim is messing around with his wife. The relationship that Curley and his wife have is that Curley doesn’t trust his wife. At the end of the story Lennie kills Curley’s wife as you know Curley’s wife is flirtatious, she started flirting with Lennie and asked him to touch her hair and that's when things start to go wrong. When she asked him to touch her hair, Lennie wouldn’t let go of Curley’s wife's hair “But mine is soft and fine” (hair) and when Lennie wouldn’t go of Curley’s wife's hair she started screaming but Lennie covered her mouth and broke her neck and she dies. I also think that Curley’s wife’s is a tart when George enters the room she starts talking to him and starts lifting her skirt up, she does this to any one of the ranch workers “well I think Curley’s married ... a tart”
Crooks is black and he’s disabled readers feel sorry for him because no one talks to him, he has to sleep in the stable buck, he also has to do everything in his room like reading, if he wants to go in the yard he has to wait till everyone's gone in the bunk house or gone out when George came in his room he said “I don’t what you're doing in the barn anyway” this shows at first Crooks doesn’t want Lennie to come in his room but after a while he told him to sit down “set down, set down on that nail peg” this shows that Crooks is lonely and jumps to the chance to talk to Lennie. Crooks then starts saying that George would leave him and Lennie didn’t like this but Crooks was enjoying this because it seemed like he was winding Lennie up. ”Le’s say he wants to come back and can’t come back. S’pose he gets killed or hurt so he can’t come back” this had made Lennie upset without Crooks realising that he was hurting Lennie feelings. When Candy entered the barn he was looking for Lennie Crook’s face went down because he knew that he’ll be the sad lonely man again.
Candy is another character in the book, we feel sorry for him because he’s lonely he only has one hand and he had a dream of joining George and Lennie on their ranch but it is now over. Candy’s dog had been with Candy since he was little. Carlson persuaded candy to put his dog out of it’s misery Carlson had told him if I shoot your dog at the back of the head he won’t feel a thing, ”right back of the head he wouldn’t even quiver” As you know that Candy gets extra money to care for his needs he’d offered George and Lennie money to pay for the ranch, so he could live with them and help out, he didn’t have any relations so he’d put his will in their names “ I’d make a will an’ leave my share to you guys in case I kick off, cause I ain’t got no relatives nor nothing” George and Lennie agreed . But ,that was before Lennie killed Curley’s wife after George killed Lennie, George went off to another ranch and Candy’s hopes of getting out of the ranch was shattered.
Steinbeck wants us to feel sorry for these characters , George, Lennie, Curley’s wife, Crooks, Candy because they all end up lonely or have been lonely for years except Lennie and Curley’s wife even though they both die, although Curley’s wife was lonely before. The Characters are lonely for a reason crooks was black so no one would talk to him. Curley’s wife was lonely because she couldn’t talk to ant one apart from Curley , Candy ended up lonely after Carlson shoot his dog . Finally at the end of the story George becomes lonely after he shot Lennie because he didn't want Curley to shoot Lennie so he wouldn’t regret it.
The character I don’t feel sorry for is Curley because ,when Curley’s wife died all he wanted to do is kill Lennie to get revenge back Lennie at for what he had done to his hand he wasn’t at all in agony , that his wife died. It felt like Curley wasn’t bothered and I think that Curley thinks he can get any wife he wants.
The character I feel sorry for the most is Curley’s wife. I feel sorry for Curley’s wife because she's not allowed to talk to anyone apart from Curley. Curley’s wife has to stay at home and can’t go out without asking Curley and I know that Curley’s wife doesn’t have any freedom. If she didn't marry Curley and she received that letter she could have been a glamorous Hollywood actress.
