Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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In “Of Mice and Men”, several characters suffer from loneliness because of their backgrounds, race, sex, or just the bias other have towards them. A character who suffers discrimination of her sex and bias from the other men is Curley’s wife. “Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely...You can talk to people,but I can’t talk to nobody but Curly.” (p.82) At this point in the story, Lennie has killed his baby pup and is debating over what to do with it. Curley’s wife walks in, bored of staying in the house all day, and begins to interrogate Lennie after being lonely. She explains to him that because of her husband’s character towards other men, she is prohibited from even small talk with the other ranchers, she