Of Mice And Men Crooks Friendship Essay

We all have that one friend who is there for us when we need them. We can just sit down and talk and you feel really happy when we’re around them. But sometimes not everyone has that friend and can sometimes be really down in the dumps all the time, well in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men; Crooks, Curley's wife, and Candy are all lonely on the ranch, they tell us how their lives could have been different if they never came to the ranch, and how their dreams were destroyed.
Crooks is the black man that lives in the barn with all the animals. He is probably one of the loneliest characters in the book, he doesn’t want anyone around him and likes to be alone he is always excluded from everything the white men get to do because he is black. Crooks is always alone while the other men play cards in the bunkhouse and he is always in a bad mood towards everyone. “‘They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink’” pg 68. Crooks is probably always alone and probably never had that good friend, which I don’t know how he can stand it. Crooks is always sad and is kind of distant from everyone and if the other men try to talk to …show more content…
She also met a guy in Salina at a dance and he told her he could put her on the big screen and when he got back to Hollywood he would write about her and write her a letter, but she never got this letter. So she met Curley and married him as fast as she could and then she moved away with him. Curley’s wife flirts with the men so she can have a conversation, she hates the ranch and wanted to make something of herself but now she can’t. “I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely” pg 86. Curley’s wife is lonely being the only girl and having a husband that only uses her, she is also excluded from everything the men do, so I can see why she might get lonely after a little