"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved," says Mother Teresa. Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men, the common theme of loneliness reflects in almost all the characters, especially Curly's wife, Crooks and Candy. Throughout the novel, each character displays loneliness in their own way. The novel begins with two men coming to work on ranch, named George and Lennie. They quickly meet Candy, a very old man who was very wise though. Soon after they meet Curly's wife, the only female in the book. However, she is immediately disliked, for all the men claim that she's very flirty and always causing troubles. Lastly, Lennie meets Crooks, one of the only black men for miles and miles. Throughout the story Curly's wife's, Candy, and Crook's personality reflect how secretly lonely and isolated they feel. .
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When Lennie and Curly's wife were in the barn, Lennie asked her to leave. Explaining that George didn't want for him to get in trouble, Curly's wife got very angry and defensive. Steinbeck writes, "Her face grew angry. “Wha’s the matter with me?” she cried. “Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?.....I ain’t doin’ no harm to you.” It is apparent she's lonesome, for she"cries" about how she doesn't get to talk to anybody, and when she questions if she's doing harm to anyone it highlights how she lives in such solitude on the ranch, for everyone judges her without even getting to know her personality. Additionally after Curly's wife traumatic death Steinbeck describes her as, "the meanness and the plannings of the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face." Almost as if now that she died, she escaped her loneliness and is happier some place else It is very apparent Curly's wife is eager for people and attention throughout the
When Lennie and Curly's wife were in the barn, Lennie asked her to leave. Explaining that George didn't want for him to get in trouble, Curly's wife got very angry and defensive. Steinbeck writes, "Her face grew angry. “Wha’s the matter with me?” she cried. “Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody? Whatta they think I am, anyways?.....I ain’t doin’ no harm to you.” It is apparent she's lonesome, for she"cries" about how she doesn't get to talk to anybody, and when she questions if she's doing harm to anyone it highlights how she lives in such solitude on the ranch, for everyone judges her without even getting to know her personality. Additionally after Curly's wife traumatic death Steinbeck describes her as, "the meanness and the plannings of the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face." Almost as if now that she died, she escaped her loneliness and is happier some place else It is very apparent Curly's wife is eager for people and attention throughout the