Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Have you ever been lonely? For someone to be lonely, it means that he or she is solitary and do not have any companions. Loneliness appears in today’s world in different cases. In Of Mice and Men, the characters that present the theme of loneliness are Candy, Curley’s wife, George, Crooks, and Curley. Early in the book, George sets the lonely mood by stating to Lennie, “Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”(pg 8 ) Another key to presenting the theme is that George always plays the card game solitaire. The word solitaire means to be alone; therefore, George plays solitaire because if he would play with Lennie he would not get anywhere. He is also lonely because he doesn’t have someone on the same level with who he can interact. He has Lennie around him but he can’t have that normal connection with him because of his mental disability. So in all reality George is lonely. When he killed Lennie he realized that was his only “person/family “he had to talk to, yes he had friends and everything but that was with no connection it was all just to pass the time. But when he started to find a connection with slim he was able to talk to him unlike he was able to with Lennie. He was realizing he really didn’t need Lennie

She says, “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.” She was only know as Curley’s wife which meant that she was owned by him. She didn’t like that because her marriage with Curley did not make her happy, but it made her feel awful and regretful. She wanted to have connection with someone, she wanted to feel good about herself she wants to feel wanted. That’s why she is such a flirt, she use that to feel a connection between someone just that’s gives her some happiness. She had wanted to become a movie star, but never got the chance. She is also avoided because she always causes trouble and brings commotion among the workers and