When humans experience loneliness and search for love or connection but never find it, they tend to lash out or get upset because humans are built off the human connection. John Steinbeck shows how when people don't get the human connection they need or aren't being heard by the people around them, they get upset and lash out. In his book Mice and Me, an outstanding character that shows this is Curley's wife when she lashes out and gets upset when she feels she is not being heard or when somebody doesn’t want to talk to her. In his book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck shows how loneliness can affect a person. He shows this through how he writes and develops Curley's wife and how she acts when she doesn't get what she wants or feels unheard. In the story, she walks up to George and Lennie …show more content…
This is prominent when she says and does “She smiled archly and twitched her body”. Nobody can blame a person for looking”. Additionally, an example of how Curley's wife shows how her loneliness affects her is when she says "They left all the weak ones here," she said. Think I don't know where they all went? Even Curley. I know where they all went”. When she says this, you can tell that she hates that they all left her and left her alone. Overall, John Steinbeck writes and develops Curley's Wife as a woman who hates loneliness and gets upset when she can't speak her mind or even speak at all. Crooks in the story also shows how he feels lonely and how he gets segregated because he was a black person in the 1930s. When Lennie asks Crooks about why he's not wanted in the bunks, Crooks says "'Cause I'm black. They play cards there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all stink to me." Another point in which Crooks talks about how he”s doing is when he says “I ain't a southern Negro," he said. I was