Loneliness! The most important theme in the book Of Mice and Men. Loneliness is very important. As the story progressed loneliness became a very significant theme because the characters don't have any known living family. Even though they have each other on the ranch that isn't enough to feel the gaps of not having a family to live with. “A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.” Loneliness mainly affects Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife. Candy is the least lonely of the three, He is an old man that had his hand cut off in a machine accident. At the beginning of the story Candy doesn’t seem as lonely because he had a dog which was very old and that he had for many years. Well one night Carlson and some of the other men were complaining that his dog stinks too much and that they should shoot the dog to put him out of his misery, since the do was so old. Candy eventually agrees to it and ever since his dog was shot he has felt like he was alone without his dog to accompany him anymore. Candy then turns to George …show more content…
Crooks is the only black man on the ranch, and he has to sleep separate from all the other men. Crooks supposedly isn't allowed in the bunkhouse with all the other white men. His job on the ranch is to tend the horses, Just like Candy, Crooks is left behind while the other men go and work in the fields. To cover up his loneliness Crooks doesn't want anyone coming into his room because he claims that he needs some privacy. When Lennie goes into Crooks’ room he tells Lennie to stay. Lennie eventually slips and tells Crooks about His and Georges dream of owning a ranch someday. Crooks tells Lennie that their dream will never happen because George is gonna spend all of his money by going into town with the other men. Lennie gets really
Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is a book that can be analyzed and broken down into a vast majority of themes. One of the predominant themes found in this book is loneliness. Many characters in this book are affected by loneliness and they all demonstrate it in one way or another throughout the book. Examples of these characters are Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy.
In his novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck depicts the essential loneliness of California ranch life in the 1930s. He illustrates how people are driven to find companionship. There were so many moments of loneliness and sadness throughout the novel, including many deaths. Following the deaths, they were very unexpected making the novel more intense and latch onto it more.
In conclusion, all of these characters from “Of Mice and Men” are lonely in their own ways. Candy is old and he lost his only friend, his dog. Crooks is segregated from the society because he is black and not allowed to be with the whites. Also last but not least, Curley’s wife is lonely because she is a woman and she was born with that. In our society, right now, women have a lot of rights, from getting jobs to voting.
In my essay I will discuss the theme of loneliness in the novel “Of Mice And Men.” The essay will consist of information based on the novel towards minor characters such as Curley’s Wife, Candy and Crooks. This essay will provide information about Curley’s Wife, Candy and Crooks’ loneliness. Curley’s Wife was probably one of the loneliest characters of all. She never talked to anyone and she never really liked Curley all that much.
Crooks expressed feelings of loneliness through out Of Mice and Men. Crooks? loneliness is caused because he is black, at the time the story took place there was racism. Since Crooks is black he wasn?t able to socialize with the white men. When Steinbeck describes all of Crooks? possessions, it shows that Crooks has been at the ranch a long time and that his possessions are all the he cares about. In Crooks? room, Lennie comes to talk to him. Crooks is cautious at first, this was from the years of racism that Crooks endured, he learned not to associate with white folk.
In the touching and gripping tale of John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he explains many themes throughout the books. One of the major themes is loneliness, which is shown throughout many different characters, for example, Curley’s wife, the stable buck (Crooks), and Lennie.
Mother Theresa once said, "Loneliness is a man's worst poverty." Without friends and companions, people begin to suffer from loneliness and solitude (Dusenbury 38). Loneliness is an inevitable fact of life and cannot be avoided, as shown prevalent through each of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Each and every character in this novel exhibits loneliness. Lennie was isolated for being mentally handicapped, Candy was isolated for being old and disabled, Crooks was for being black, Curley's wife for being a woman, and George for having to care for Lennie and being unable to socialize with others because of Lennie's consistency of getting into trouble from town to town.
In terms of emotional stability, there is only one thing in life that is really needed and that is friends. Without friends, people would suffer from loneliness and solitude. Loneliness leads to low self-esteem and deprivation. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the characters, Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife all exhibit some form of loneliness. They are driven towards the curiosity of George and Lennie's friendship because they do not have that support in their life. Through his novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck demonstrates that often times, a victim of isolation will have a never-ending search to fulfill a friendship.
Crooks was excluded from the group and had his own barn which was his only freedom. When Crooks said “Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? ” (Steinbeck 72), he wants to seek someone’s company like Lennie has George’s. Crooks threatened Lennie into the fact that George might not come back because he wanted Lennie to feel loneliness, but to his disappointment he was in vain. Crooks also conveys through his body language and the way he speaks that he doesn’t want to be excluded from the others and wants to participate in all the activities with them.
Loneliness is the central theme in the novel Of Mice and Men. Many of the characters show signs of being lonely, some more than others. Loneliness haunts Crooks deep inside. Crooks accepts things the way they are though. Crooks does not talk to the other men and they do not talk to him. This causes the greatest amount of loneliness in Crooks out of all the characters. Rejection can cause most people to become crazy, as it
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Crooks is a disabled black old man who works and lives in the stable. Crooks once said to Lennie, “they play cards in there, but I can’t play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me” (Steinbeck 68). this shows anger and doubts against people as he believes they are there to harm him. Crooks has a disabled back due to a horse kicking his back while at work, in fact, that is how he got his name. The main reason for Crook’s isolation is because of the color of his skin. Crooks is not only left aside from activities but he is left in the stable to live along with with the animals instead of sleeping with the men in the bunkhouse. Crooks was thrown and harmed so much that he believes that he should not trust anyone and that he will never be accepted in
Crooks is colored and crippled leaving him excluded from the other farmworkers, he is used to solitude and dreams of having a companion. Crooks soon pulls himself out of this impossible fantasy and tells Candy that he didn’t mean what he said, after all “Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s jus’ in their head” (Steinbeck 74). Perhaps the most tragically doomed dream is George and Lennie’s fantasy of owning a farm that would not only provide them with happiness and freedom, but protection from an uninviting world. George and Lennie both bring up their farm multiple times throughout the novel, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hunch and chickens.
Crooks harsh tone in his dialogue with Lennie, “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me”, displays Crooks attempt to express his desire for superiority. Since Crooks isn’t wanted anywhere else other than his own stable, he claims the stable as his own personal area belonging to no one other than himself to acquire a sense of supremacy. “They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.” This quote illustrates Crooks negative behaviour as a consequence of his mistreatment due to his status. Crooks malevolent plan was to suppress Lennie’s ambitions of owning a farm, as a method to express his sorrow and powerlessness, while also grasping a feeling of