Loneliness was a common feeling during the Great Depression (1930s). So many people did not understand how friendship at the time. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Crooks is powerless from his skin color and Curley’s wife is ignored because she is a woman, and they fail to search for companionship and become lonely.
Curley’s Wife relies on other men on the ranch to become her companion. “She got the eye goin’ all the time on everybody. I bet she even gives the stable buck the eye.”(Pg.51) Curley’s wife shows a great example of failing to search for companionship by being desperate, by seeking attention from men, and physically flirting with any man that she lays her eyes upon. Also she is considered a “tart”, because of the fact that
Curley’s Wife relies on other men on the ranch to become her companion. “She got the eye goin’ all the time on everybody. I bet she even gives the stable buck the eye.”(Pg.51) Curley’s wife shows a great example of failing to search for companionship by being desperate, by seeking attention from men, and physically flirting with any man that she lays her eyes upon. Also she is considered a “tart”, because of the fact that