If you always focus on the negative factors, or what you don’t have in your life, loneliness or depression is inevitable. John Steinbeck focuses on showing this throughout his novel, specifically with a few certain characters. Crooks is a negro stable buck with a crooked back, he is older and is the only negro on the ranch. Throughout the novel Crooks is portrayed as unwanted, when Lennie goes and talks to Crooks, that’s when all of his true feelings come out to the open. “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 bunk house and play rummy cause you was black. How’d you like that? S’pose you had to sit out here an’ read books. Sure you could play …show more content…
When she was younger men used her, a man told her that she would be famous and he would write her, bring her to Hollywood, and make her famous. Of course he just said those things to get her into bed with him, she is kind of a tart. She married Curley, but spends most of her time giving “the eye” to the other men that work on the ranch. She tells Lennie “Wha’s the matter with me? Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways? I don’t know why I can’t talk to you. I ain’t doin’ no harm to you” Page 83. Curley is always working so his wife gets lonely and just wants someone to pay attention to her and make her feel loved and wanted. She doesn’t want to be there, she wants to be famous and living the life she imagined it, but instead she’s living on a ranch with a man she doesn’t even want. Candy is the other character that symbolizes loneliness, he only has his dog. When Carlson tells him countless times that his dog basically has two paws in the grave already. It doesn’t have teeth, it can’t eat, it smells because it is basically rotting. What Carlson and the other guys don’t realize, that dog is the only friend that Candy has. He doesn’t know what to do without him, although he let Carlson shoot it, he will definitely be