When you see someone alone and away from others what goes through your mind? You may think they are antisocial or that they are just a loner, but have you ever stopped to think about what goes through their mind? Some people may enjoy being alone and try their best to shut others out, but what about those who get shut out by others. Loneliness comes in many forms. Someone who seems to throw themselves at people could just be searching for someone to catch them and understand them. Someone who isn’t bright might just need that person willing to teach them. Someone who is cut off from the rest of their world merely for their appearance, needs someone who can look at them in a different light. In Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, these types of loneliness are shown by Curley’s wife, Lennie, and Crooks. …show more content…
Someone who gives every guy she sees “the eye” even though she is a married woman. But all of this causes her husband to have to keep an eye out. The others on the ranch avoid talking to her out of fear of Curley. So she has no one on the ranch to talk to unless Curley is there, which he rarely is considering Curley and his wife are constantly looking for each other. It’s not like she has any girls to socialize with either since she is the only woman on the ranch. All she wants is someone to talk to, which she shows when she tells Lennie "Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."(Steinbeck 86). He was the only person willing to hear her out and not be afraid to talk to her. Before her death, she had finally found a person to talk to, someone who could keep her company for her last few minutes. Lennie was that person for