Curley's Wife And Loneliness

Loneliness can oftentimes be associated with being alone, but the difference is, loneliness can ultimately alter one’s own self and could cause one to pay a hefty price. Being alone is the physical state in which one is by themselves and no one is physically around them, while loneliness is the emotional state in which one may have had people around and in their life, yet they felt like they are alone and had no one. Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, Curley’s wife felt the emotional state of loneliness while she lived on the farm due to the rules and regulations her husband had put on the farm and the men who lived on it. Although there was people on the farm who surrounded her, she still felt like she was alone and had no one who loved …show more content…
Her bold actions and words were sometimes unavoidable, but the men did their best to try to stay away from her. This behavior shown by these men caused Curley’s wife to begin feeling lonely because she felt as if no one wanted to talk to her, but in reality, the men were just fearful of their jobs. Being that Lennie was very fond of Curley’s wife, George knew the rules about staying away from her and warned Lennie about her. George exclaimed, “Don't you ever look at that bitch. I don't care what she says or what she does. I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be” (Steinbeck 32). George thought that the only reason she was trying to communicate with them was so she could get them in trouble, but he did not know the real reasoning behind it. All of the men on the farm thought the same thing that George did which ended up in all of the men trying to not engage in any conversations with …show more content…
She had always assumed that the men were scared of each other and that was the reasoning for not wanting to speak to her. While engaging in a conversation with Crooks, the black stable buck, he said, “‘Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don't want no trouble”’ (Steinbeck 77). From Crooks saying this, Curley’s wife realized that the men thought she just wanted to give them trouble, and in her mind, that was not the case. After Crooks said that, she then proceeded to say, “‘Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t want like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while?”’ (Steinbeck 77). All she wanted to do was make conversations with the men on the farm without having them blatantly ignore her. Although she just explained the reasoning for wanting to talk to them, all of the men were still certain that she just wanted to cause problems with the men and her