Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Everybody has felt loneliness at some point in his or her life but never felt it for such a long period of time. People that are lonely sometimes want a partner or companionship. In Steinbeck's novel of Mice and Men, the book is surrounded by characters who are lonely and want companionship but never can get what they want.The time period of this story is during The Great Depression creating a sense of loneliness since people of this time couldn't afford jobs and people with families could barely support their family members. Even though the idea of being alone is recurring in the novel, concept of “having someone” shows throughout the novel as well because no one really had someone to rely on except for Lennie and George, Crooks being the only one being by himself in the

George and Lennie were talking about how they are different then other men and how other men prefer go alone, but George and Lennie like to travel together. While George was speaking, Lennie broke in “But not us!… Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you that's why” (Steinbeck 14). Lennie and George are always together. George helps Lennie and Lennie helps George in some way. The reason George stays with Lennie is because Lennie has a mind of a child and without someone to watch over him he will get himself into trouble. Lennie helps George with his emotions. George easily gets angry at Lennie, but Lennie doesn't care because he knows that George loves him as family. George and Lennie always travel together mostly because they need each other. If they didn't have each other they would both be alone and have problems they couldn't fix. They both support each other and without each other the emotion of loneliness would