Solitude In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Solitude “It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society” (Krishnamuri). In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife show a sign of loneliness. Cooks is the loneliest, because he lives by himself, the guys never invite him to play cards in the other rooms. He gets treated like this because he’s black. The time that Lennie walked in and Crooks was angry at him was because nobody walks in a black man’s room. There is a lot of loneliness in this story dealing with the time era, nobody really has a friend. There is only one strong friendship in this story, and that’s Lennie and George. Many of the Characters face one of the scariest things in life that people are afraid of encountering, loneliness. Crooks scowled, but Lennie’s disarming smile defeated him. “Come on in and set a while,” Crooks said. “Long as you won’t get out and leave me alone, you might as well set down” (69). His tone was a little friendlier. Crooks has been friendless and so lonely for a very long time that he can’t really stand anyone being nice to him, like Lennie. Crooks is being left out of everything besides work on the ranch …show more content…
Just like Crooks, Curley’s Wife, and Candy showing some of the symptoms of loneliness and maybe the feeling of being sheltered. This has changed over time, loneliness has not gone away, and there are still human beings that are lonely in today’s world. John Steinbeck feels that loneliness was a little more overpowering in the 1930’s because of racism and sexism. Overall discrimination has gotten better, there still are problems with racism, but sexism on the other hand has gotten tremendously better. There are still some places in society that need more work on racism problems. John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men to explain the harshness of life with the problem with