Mother Teresa once said “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” In John Steinbeck 's novel, Of Mice and Men, the three characters, Curly wife, Candy, and Crooks struggle with loneliness that they try to overcome by searching for friendship with others on the ranch. Crooks demonstrates loneliness because he is the only black man on the ranch and he lives in the barn separated from the others. Candy is the old man on the ranch who has lost his hand and lost his dog, witch later results in him being lonely. Since candy lost his dog he has no-one to take care of, talk to, or play with, thus making him isolated. Curley threatens all of the men with a beating if they speak to his wife, witch makes Curley 's wife feel extremely isolated and lonely. Curley 's wife eventually seeks attention by going to Lennie, which leads to the cause of her death. Steinbeck 's use of the theme of loneliness to show that people need to interact with others and that loneliness can affect people of all types.
One character that faces lots of loneliness is Curley 's wife because of the fact that she gave up on her dream of becoming a actor. As a result Curley 's wife went looking for a rich young man. She soon marred Curly and felt lonely because she needed more attention. “’I get lonely’ she said ‘You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley, else he
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In John Steinbeck 's novel, Of Mice and Men, the three characters, Curly wife, Candy, and Crooks struggle with intense loneliness that they try to overcome by searching for friendship with others on the ranch. Curley’s wife seeks to end her intense loneliness by flirting with the other men at the ranch, Candy seeks to end his loneliness by becoming friends with Lennie and George, and Crooks seeks to end his loneliness by allowing Lennie into his room. Steinbeck 's use of the theme of loneliness to show that people need to interact with others and that loneliness can affect