Examples Of Companionship In Of Mice And Men

In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he brings to light an interesting perspective on how companionship affects everyone in their daily lives. The story follows two migrant workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, as they begin a new job in a new town, and seem to be optimistic about their future. We see examples of companionship in George and Lennie’s “American Dream”, Crook’s conversation with Lennie, and in Curley’s wife. Over the course of the story, we see in those examples how companionship can bring everyone up, or how the lack thereof drags people down.
The sense of companionship in the story for the two main characters is paramount. This is embodied in this quote, “With us it ain’t like that. We got a future, We got somebody

The foremost example of this is Curley's wife. “Well, I ain’t told this to nobody before. Maybe I ought’n to. I don’ like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella” (Steinbeck 89). We can tell that in the story leading up to this quote, Curley’s wife is rather upset with the current state of her marriage, and this quote simply confirms the reader’s suspicions. She’s rather devoid of attention, and is willing to seek it from wherever possible. We see a parallel in Crooks, the stable boy. His devoid of companionship (due to being shunned for his race) is best illustrated in this quote, “I said s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more.” Crooks pressed forward some kind of private victory. “Just s’pose that,” he repeated. “He won’t do it,” Lennie cried. “George wouldn’t do nothing like that. I been with George a long time. He’ll come back tonight—” But the doubt was too much for him. “Don’t you think he will?” Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his torture. “Nobody can’t tell what a guy’ll do,” he observed calmly. “Le’s say he wants to come back and can’t. S’pose he gets killed or hurt so he can’t come back” (Steinbeck 71). Crooks later goes on a rant about how he’s practically alone most of the day, all because of his race. He took a sense of maligned humor in seeing Lennie’s despair about the possibility of losing George, along a mentality of “If I can’t have it, then