Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Someone to talk to too, someone who listens, understands, and can connect to you. This is a friend. Friendship is the source of happiness and can change a bad day into a good one at any given moment. Although many people don’t have any form of friendship at all. In fact many feel very unhappy because they are lonely. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, many of the characters such as Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife experience loneliness that makes them unhappy. Candy, is a old swamper who works on the ranch. He never really talked to anyone else but his dog that acted as his only friend. Constantly another ranch worker, Carlson, nagged Candy about how his old dog was consistently stinking up the place with its ‘old dog’ smell and that it was time to put it out of its misery. “Candy looked a long time at Slim to try to find a reversal. And Slim gave him none.” p.47 This quote explains when Carlson gains the right to kill Candy’s dog and Candy looks around for somebody to stand up for him

She wanted to be an actress and an actor that she liked told her that he would get back to her so she could try to get a job. Time went on, and on, but still no reply from him. She started to feel like she was never going to get a reply so she married Curley to get away from her mother. “‘I don’t like Curley.’” pg.89 this quote shows how she married Curley because she needed a way out. She can never have a true conversation about feelings with him, and also he gets mad whenever she tries to talk to anyone else. Curley’s wife says another quote to Lennie on pg.87, “‘You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curly.” This explains how she feels almost taken away from the rest of the world and forced to live inside her own little bubble.To conclude, she like the other feel like they are being stripped away from the rest of the world and are unhappy because of