Of Mice of Men Loneliness Theme Essay

Curley’s wife is the only women in the story. She might be the loneliest of all characters. Her husband Curley doesn’t treat her well and has no one to talk to. She try’s going around talking to others to feel a little less lonely. â€Å"Nobody can blame a person for looking† This means she is looking for someone to talk to, to feel less lonely. She died when trying to be friendly, when talking to Lennie. This shows the extreme she had to take herself just to communicate with someone. She also thought that men were more comfortable with her than the others. â€Å"If I catch any one man, and he’s alone, I get along fine with him. But just let two of the guys get together an’ you won’t talk. Jus’ nothing but mad. You’re all scared of each other, that’s what. Ever’ one of you’s scared the rest is goin’ to get something on you†. She talks aout her loneliness on one quote suggest that she is essapally alone on a Saturday night when she is always alone wheater or not they are in. Its one of the way she shows to us she is lonely. 4. â€Å"- Sat’iday night. Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs – a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy o;’ sheep – an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else.† Curley is a character who thinks he is simply the best and because of his boxing career he has over confidence and thinks he is better than all. This bought him to pick on Lennie as he was mentally disable and acts as a child. This made him as a bully as he didn’t have many friends to spend time with; again loneliness leads to many problems like this. He married a women to feel as little less lonely but unfortunately just after 2 weeks they hated each other. I thnk the main reason for this is his anger over everything and his over protectiveness. As everyone knows he would never be the man of his father – his rude, to easily annoyed and has a short temper. This lend to the fight with Lennie where his hand was cut/ broken. Tragically Lennie was blamed for this and his angry grew further with Lennie. Quote on crooks words â€Å"S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy ’cause you was black. How’d you like that? S’pose you had to sit out here an’ read books†¦Books ain’t no good. 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 with you†¦I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.† This quote shows clear evidence that Crooks is lonely and depressed, therefore shows his quest for some human company. To reduce his loneliness he reads books but thinks that books aren’t as great as a human relationship. Also is partly frustrated of the racial prejudices directed towards him. The way he structures it is also great to read such as â€Å"S’pose† is repeated in a way as if everything is against him. Crooks also know that his colour is the only reason for his loneliness and that the other factors aren’t the reason for him being left alone. â€Å"Why ain’t you wanted ?† Lennie asked. † ‘Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink.† This is shown half the way through the story on page 68. He is therefore 100% sure that nothing can stop his nightmare. On the other hands Lennie who is mentally disable but very tall and strong has a friend George. He cares for Lennie and tries to make him comfortable and less lonely. Lennie is picked on by many people because of his disable; here Curley picks on him about Lennie tries to not talk back as he doesn’t want George to loss him job again. Lennie is lonely because of the fact that he is mentally disabled to the mind of a child; therefore would like a child to play with instead of adults and lifting things for business, money and food. He acts innocent and is unable to tell the different between life and death as many rabbit have been killed under his arms without him knowing; this lend to George not allowing his to play with rabbits he loves. The problem with him is his lack of knowledge, intelligence and safeness, as this causes a lot of problems when combined with his strength because he doesn’t know when to stop. This makes everyone look as if he is dangerous making them stay away from him leading to loneliness. Additionally all this these point together is what makes each character in the story lonely and affects the minds of everyone. Different factors affect each person resulting in a total loneliness.