Loneliness! The most important theme in the book Of Mice and Men. Loneliness is very important. As the story progressed loneliness became a very significant theme because the characters don't have any known living family. Even though they have each other on the ranch that isn't enough to feel the gaps of not having a family to live with. “A guy needs somebody―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's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.” Loneliness mainly affects Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife. Candy is the least lonely of the three, He is an old man that had his hand cut off in a machine accident. At the beginning of the story Candy doesn’t seem as lonely because he had a dog which was very old and that he had for many years. Well one night Carlson and some of the other men were complaining that his dog stinks too much and that they should shoot the dog to put him out of his misery, since the do was so old. Candy eventually agrees to it and ever since his dog was shot he has felt like he was alone without his dog to accompany him anymore. Candy then turns to George …show more content…
Crooks is the only black man on the ranch, and he has to sleep separate from all the other men. Crooks supposedly isn't allowed in the bunkhouse with all the other white men. His job on the ranch is to tend the horses, Just like Candy, Crooks is left behind while the other men go and work in the fields. To cover up his loneliness Crooks doesn't want anyone coming into his room because he claims that he needs some privacy. When Lennie goes into Crooks’ room he tells Lennie to stay. Lennie eventually slips and tells Crooks about His and Georges dream of owning a ranch someday. Crooks tells Lennie that their dream will never happen because George is gonna spend all of his money by going into town with the other men. Lennie gets really
“You seen what they did to my dog tonight? They say he wasn’t good to himself, nor anyone else. When they can me here I wish somebody’d shoot me - Candy”. This quote shows how Candy was so lonely that he would rather want someone to kill himself instead of his dog because without his dog, he is now even more lonely. He is more lonelier than when he was before because before he was just old and he had his dog with him....
Candy is the other character that is lonely. Not because of the the men not talking to him of anything like that. Because, when Carlson shot his old dog, Candy felt alone. Candy had that pup since he was a kid.
Nobody likes to be forced to live in a barn, let alone to work only with the horses. Crooks spent most of his nights reading and he keeps away from others because of the way he is treated and this eventually leads to his very own emotional downfall. He is treated as an outcast and is forced to find friendship the only way he can, through the books that he reads. Crooks is fascinated by the strength of the friendship of Lennie and George, especially how close they are. Crooks said, "Well, s'pose, jus' s'pose he don't come back.
Mother Theresa once said, "Loneliness is a man's worst poverty." Without friends and companions, people begin to suffer from loneliness and solitude (Dusenbury 38). Loneliness is an inevitable fact of life and cannot be avoided, as shown prevalent through each of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Each and every character in this novel exhibits loneliness. Lennie was isolated for being mentally handicapped, Candy was isolated for being old and disabled, Crooks was for being black, Curley's wife for being a woman, and George for having to care for Lennie and being unable to socialize with others because of Lennie's consistency of getting into trouble from town to town.
alone just to try make some money. This was a very bad period in the
Crooks was excluded from the group and had his own barn which was his only freedom. When Crooks said “Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he’s goin’ to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? ” (Steinbeck 72), he wants to seek someone’s company like Lennie has George’s. Crooks threatened Lennie into the fact that George might not come back because he wanted Lennie to feel loneliness, but to his disappointment he was in vain. Crooks also conveys through his body language and the way he speaks that he doesn’t want to be excluded from the others and wants to participate in all the activities with them.
Not having any friends is one of the reasons why Crooks is lonely. The other workers on the ranch take place in fun activities, such as horseshoes and card games. Crooks never gets invited to play. This resentment is due solely to the color of his skin. The other characters all have someone to talk to. George and Lennie have each other, Candy had both his dogs. The other workers are friends with one another. Curley’s wife is also lonely, but still has Curley. The men sit in the bunk house, talk and have fun on occasion. Meanwhile Crooks is in his shed all alone. Crooks tries to explain to Lennie in
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For Candy, he was lonely because he felt like he was the only one of the other ranch workers that is getting more useless everyday and feels uncertain of his future on the ranch. For Crooks, it was being segregated from the rest of the workers that made him lonely. And for Curley’s wife, it was the inability to talk to anyone else other than her husband. For George, the hope of such companionship dies with Lennie, and true to his original estimation, he will go through life alone.
Crooks is a disabled black old man who works and lives in the stable. Crooks once said to Lennie, “they play cards in there, but I can’t play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, all of you stink to me” (Steinbeck 68). this shows anger and doubts against people as he believes they are there to harm him. Crooks has a disabled back due to a horse kicking his back while at work, in fact, that is how he got his name. The main reason for Crook’s isolation is because of the color of his skin. Crooks is not only left aside from activities but he is left in the stable to live along with with the animals instead of sleeping with the men in the bunkhouse. Crooks was thrown and harmed so much that he believes that he should not trust anyone and that he will never be accepted in
They both spent all their time together and George was the one that took Lenny under his arm after his Aunt Clara passed away. There were other great companions throughout the novel like Candy and his old dog. Candy and his dog did everything together and were inseparable even though the workers told Candy that his dog was way to old to do anything. Lastly is Crooks, and his companion was himself because he states, "A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick." (Pg.
Crooks is colored and crippled leaving him excluded from the other farmworkers, he is used to solitude and dreams of having a companion. Crooks soon pulls himself out of this impossible fantasy and tells Candy that he didn’t mean what he said, after all “Nobody gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s jus’ in their head” (Steinbeck 74). Perhaps the most tragically doomed dream is George and Lennie’s fantasy of owning a farm that would not only provide them with happiness and freedom, but protection from an uninviting world. George and Lennie both bring up their farm multiple times throughout the novel, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hunch and chickens.
Crooks expressed feelings of loneliness through out Of Mice and Men. Crooks? loneliness is caused because he is black, at the time the story took place there was racism. Since Crooks is black he wasn?t able to socialize with the white men. When Steinbeck describes all of Crooks? possessions, it shows that Crooks has been at the ranch a long time and that his possessions are all the he cares about. In Crooks? room, Lennie comes to talk to him. Crooks is cautious at first, this was from the years of racism that Crooks endured, he learned not to associate with white folk.
In the touching and gripping tale of John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he explains many themes throughout the books. One of the major themes is loneliness, which is shown throughout many different characters, for example, Curley’s wife, the stable buck (Crooks), and Lennie.
Crooks harsh tone in his dialogue with Lennie, “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me”, displays Crooks attempt to express his desire for superiority. Since Crooks isn’t wanted anywhere else other than his own stable, he claims the stable as his own personal area belonging to no one other than himself to acquire a sense of supremacy. “They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.” This quote illustrates Crooks negative behaviour as a consequence of his mistreatment due to his status. Crooks malevolent plan was to suppress Lennie’s ambitions of owning a farm, as a method to express his sorrow and powerlessness, while also grasping a feeling of