“There wasn’t another colored family for miles around, and now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad.” He laughed. “If I say something, why it’s just a nigger sayin’ it.” (pg:70). Another reason Crooks is lonely is his feeling of not having friends. “Maybe you guys better go,” he said. “I ain’t sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ‘em.”(pg:82). And the third and final reason Crooks is lonely is he is disabled. “Crooks sat on his bunk and looked at the door for a moment, and then reached for the liniment bottle. He pulled out his shirt in back, poured a little liniment in his pink palm and, reaching around, he fell slowly to rubbing his back” To explain, Crooks is lonely because he’s Black, which in the time period are still discriminated, he is lonely because he feels like he has no friends, and he feels lonely because he is disabled, that’s how he got the name Crooks, cause of his …show more content…
Curley’s wife is the least lonely cause of her looks help attract men to talk to her, but her broken dream, the way Curley treats her, and the way some guys are told to stay away from her cause she is a tart and trouble leaves her in the dark. Crooks is the second loneliness because Lennie, Candy and Curley’s wife talks to him, but because he is black, he is disabled with the major crook in his back (hence the name “Crooks”) and no family he really he “someone” but no one all at once. Then we have Lennie, the loneliest of them all, he does have George but because Lennie is disabled, his strength is so strong he kills his pets, and he is dependant on George to survive, if he loses George he will be put in a “nuthouse” cause of his disability or