Sam Harris once said, “Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.” “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck is a novel that portrays the many obstacles that had to be overcome during the 1930s. A time period where everyone was looking for work and every man was for himself. Steinbeck emphasizes in the novella, the ways friendships are formed through loneliness, especially the characters that are found to be or portrayed to be the loneliest in the book. Crooks is one of the characters that portrays
