In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife all suffer from being very lonely. Candy witnesses what happened to his dog after it began to age and wonders about his future, Crooks is discriminated against and kept away from the other men because o f his skin color and Curley’s wife is ignored and treated awfully by everyone on the ranch. These factors lead to these characters living very awfully constantly looking for some sort of happiness. Loneliness throughout the book of Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife drive them to the verge of insanity as they struggle in their daily lives to fit in. Candy fears what will happen when he is no longer able to swamp bunkhouses. He gets peer pressured into having his dog took out
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Anytime Curley’s wife attempts to talk to anyone around the ranch they all immediately tell her to leave them alone. She’s always being told that she has a husband that she should go and talk to instead of creating trouble around the ranch. She catches Crooks, Lennie and Candy in the stable buck’s room and she asks where her husband is. A small argument breaks out and Candy tells Curley’s wife to go and find her husband and quit looking for trouble. She gets upset and says, “ Sure i gotta husban’. You all seen him. Swell guy, ain’t he?” (Steinbeck 78). This shows how fed up she is with being ignored and treated like she shouldn’t be allowed to talk to anyone besides Curley. Once the men return from the town she leaves the room and goes back to her house. A few days later as the men are having a tournament outside she sneaks in on Lennie as he is tending to his dead puppy. When she finally gets Lennie to loosen up and stop being afraid of talking to her because of what George told him she begins to open up to him. She tells him that she doesn’t like Curley and wished she would have picked a different life than marrying Curley. Lennie again tells her that he’s not supposed to talk to her and she says, “ I get lonely. You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody” (Steinbeck 87). This displays how lonely Curley’s wife is because nobody around the ranch will talk to because
Anytime Curley’s wife attempts to talk to anyone around the ranch they all immediately tell her to leave them alone. She’s always being told that she has a husband that she should go and talk to instead of creating trouble around the ranch. She catches Crooks, Lennie and Candy in the stable buck’s room and she asks where her husband is. A small argument breaks out and Candy tells Curley’s wife to go and find her husband and quit looking for trouble. She gets upset and says, “ Sure i gotta husban’. You all seen him. Swell guy, ain’t he?” (Steinbeck 78). This shows how fed up she is with being ignored and treated like she shouldn’t be allowed to talk to anyone besides Curley. Once the men return from the town she leaves the room and goes back to her house. A few days later as the men are having a tournament outside she sneaks in on Lennie as he is tending to his dead puppy. When she finally gets Lennie to loosen up and stop being afraid of talking to her because of what George told him she begins to open up to him. She tells him that she doesn’t like Curley and wished she would have picked a different life than marrying Curley. Lennie again tells her that he’s not supposed to talk to her and she says, “ I get lonely. You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody” (Steinbeck 87). This displays how lonely Curley’s wife is because nobody around the ranch will talk to because