It is estimated that one in five Americans suffers from persistent loneliness.
Despite how common loneliness is, a small number of people are fully aware of the effects. It is hard to believe that loneliness is still an enormous problem with all of the public communications to try and end it. In the 1930’s loneliness affected a lot of people as an effect of The Great Depression amongst other things. Feeling lonely or alienated is not a good feeling and effects many people. In the novel Of Mice and
Men, John Steinbeck expresses these feelings through Crooks, Curley’s wife, and
Lennie.
Traveling along with someone doesn't mean you aren’t lonely. John Steinbeck shows loneliness through Lennie when Lennie tells George, “If you don’t want me I
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Later in the book, Lennie isolates himself from the other men as much as possible. He escapes by playing with puppies in the barn.
Lennie doesn’t have much self-control, which is why most of the men on the ranch don’t like to hang out with him because he’s different.
Being the forgotten one on the ranch is rough, John Steinbeck expresses the feeling of loneliness through Crooks in Of Mice and Men when Lennie is trying to talk to Crooks. Crooks tells Lennie, “Come on in and set a while.” Crooks is black and the stable-buck of the ranch, which alienates him from everyone else on the ranch. He isn’t allowed to do the things the other men on the ranch are including; sleeping in the bunkhouse, playing cards, etc. Crooks also lives in a lit shack off the barn by himself which isolated him as he is seen as a nobody on the ranch.
As the only women on the ranch, you would get treated differently. John
Steinbeck illustrates loneliness in Curley's wife, she tells Lennie, “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awfully lonely.” Curley’s wife never gets talked to. She is left out because she is Curley’s property and Curley forbids her to talk to people. Women