“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family.” Loneliness plays an important part throughout the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. Steinbeck also wrote two other nobles on the subject of loneliness. This showing how much he cares about the topic. Since he grew up in California he knew first hand about the struggles of migrant farm workers. Loneliness could be as simple as being a farm worker who constantly moves and doesn't have time to build friendships, having the dreams of owning their own farm, and wanting to have a companion and to be stable. Farm workers are never able to stay in one place for long so they are never able to make good relationships. Since there are no good relationships made the workers are always by themselves ( also meaning that they are lonely). But unlike the other guys George and Lennie. As they always say, “Guys like us, got no family. They make a little stake an’ …show more content…
When they share their vision, other lonely farm hands ask to join them. First Candy, the old, crippled swamper, who knows his work days are numbered and hopes to find a place to live out his life: “S’pose I went in with you guys. That's three hundred an fifty bucks I’d put in.” Candy has savings that might actually make the dream a reality. Later, Crooks, the cynical black and crippled stable hand sees that if they actually have the money together, they might buy a place and he begins to hope: “I never seen a guy really do it...I seen guys nearly crazy with loneliness for land...If you guys would want a hand to work for nothing--just his keep, why I’d come an’ lend a hand.” Both of these are examples of men who have almost forgotten how to dream, but when they see that money has been raised, and it might actually be possible, they buy in. Though dreams give us hope, it isn’t enough to just dream--they want to solve their isolation and