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"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.... With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us." |
Ranch hands are the "loneliest in the world" but George and Lennie have each other which is very rare during The Great Depression |
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"S'pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing." Old Candy nodded In appreciation of the idea. "We'd just go to her, " George said. "We wouldn't ask nobody if we could. Jus' say. 'We'll go to her,' an' we would. Jus' milk the cow and sling some grain to the Chickens an' go to her." |
Don't have to be controlled by someone if they wanted to do something |
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"A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by. I seen things out here. I wasn't drunk. I don't know if I was asleep. If some guy was with me, he could tell me I was asleep, an' then it would be all right. But I jus' don't know. " |
Crook admitting his vulnerability, isolation and loneliness |
