Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Crooks lonely, Candy Lonely, George lonely, why are all these men suffering the same disease? Even though there are different types of loneliness all three of these characters in Of Mice and Men are lonely, but all for different reasons.

Crooks is lonely because of the color of his skin. He lives by himself he is the only black guy on the ranch. Crooks likes to read books and likes to keep his room neat, but he has been so beaten down by loneliness and prejudicial treatment of that he is now suspicious of any kindness he receives. Also, in the book Crooks says “s’pose you didn't have nobody. S’pose you couldn't go in the bunk and rummy because you was black. How’d you like that? S’pose you had to sit out here and read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs someone to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick.” Unlike other men Crooks grew up to be a free man equal to the whites, read books, while he was still not treated right.

Candy has worked as a ranch hand all of his life he traveled ranch to ranch with his best friend his dog. He and his dog were best friends but one day the ranch workers told him its best we put him down he isn't treating himself any good and Curly didn't want to but the workers talked him into it and he was sad when he heard the gunshot. That night he said “you seen what they did to my dog tonight? They say he wasn't no good for himself or no one else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.” So, Candy is lonely because the workers shot his