Lonliness
...Crooks was very grumpy and depressed at first. Crooks said," You got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me."(p.68) Crooks makes Lennie angry when he says," S'pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more."(p.71) Crooks is just trying to portray his loneliness and to try to make Lennie feel like he does not have anybody to look after him. He is trying to give Lennie the perspective of what life would be like without George. While Lennie is talking to Crooks, Curley's wife walked in. She started calling Crooks racist names and being very unfriendly towards him. Some of those comments include when she says," You know what I could do?... Well, you keep your place then, Ni**. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."(p.80-81). Quotes like these is what makes Crooks feel so lonely, depressed, and isolated. He knows he is treated unfairly but when people are constantly unfriendly and exclude him from the most minor activities, he feels extremely lonely and underappreciated. Throughout the book Crooks is never able to overcome his loneliness. Overall Crooks is very lonely lacks the necessary human contact with people to be a happier person. All he has is a smelly room in an old dilapidated barn, barely enough pay to live on, and most importantly no friends or even acquaintance to talk with. Another character in Of Mice and Men that experiences loneliness is the "old swamper" Candy. Candy is in his later years and all of the men on the ranch are a lot younger. He doesn't have many people to talk to other than his beloved dog. However Candy's dog is criticized of smelling extremely bad and accused of being a useless pet that takes up extra room in the bunk house. In chapter 3 of the novel Carlson (another worker on the ranch) took Candy's dog outside the bunkhouse and shot him. This left Candy feeling hopeless, depressed, and extremely sad. Candy is also lonely when the other workers play horseshoes or go into town, because he isn't included. Candy often says to George that he doesn't have the energy to play with the younger guys, and that he is too old. Candy almost gets over his loneliness when he overhears a conversation about George and Lennie's dream about owning a piece of land and having all sorts of livestock on it, and a little shack to live in. Candy quickly responds to their conversation and offers them $350 toward their dream if he can be a part of it. George and Lennie think it over very briefly and agree that they want Candy to be included in their dream and they can certainly use his money. Following that moment Candy, George, and Lennie could actually visualize their dream coming true, and there was hope that they were going to accomplish their goal. Sadly the three men's dreams and plans were shattered when Lennie committed a major mishap. Lennie kills Curley's wife by breaking her neck while touching her soft hair. Following that incident Lennie ran away to the brush by the river where George told him to go if he ever got into trouble. George found Lennie in that exact spot and ended up shooting him in the back of the head with a luger which ended their plans of companionship. Just like the poem "To a Mouse" by: Robert Burns "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." This plan went completely wrong and it resulted in Candy continuing his lonely life as the swamper at the ranch. The last character in the novel that experienced loneliness is Curley's wife. Although she has Curley (her husband) she doesn't like him and thinks he is selfish. In chapter 5 when Curley's wife is in the barn and she is talking to Lennie she says," I don't like Curley. He ain't a nice fella." (p.89) This shows that she has nobody to talk to and that she gets very lonely. Curley's wife says to Lennie at the beginning of their long conversation," Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely." (p. 86) She is expres...