Of Mice And Men Curley's Wife Analysis

In the story Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck really focuses on how loneliness was a major part of California ranch life in the 1930s. His main focus is to demonstrate in his writing how people will do anything to find companionship.
Steinbeck lacks to give two characters names, The Boss and Curley’s wife. He does this because he wants to look at them as “less” compared to everyone else in the story. Since the boss is Curley’s father, even though he is in charge of the ranch, Steinbeck wants to keep most of the focus on Curley. For this reason, The Boss isn’t given a name. Curley’s wife is a big part of the book, but she is looked at to be “less than the workers” and not as important so to keep her nameless is also showing how she is not as important. Like when he says “Curley maybe ain’t gonna like his wife out in the barn with us ‘bindle stiffs.’” (Steinbeck 39) This shows that Curley likes to keep his wife isolated and how she isn’t really that important. George and Lennie could be considered lonely farmers to some, but at least they have each other. George and Lennie consider each other to be family, they have always had each other through everything they have been through and everywhere they have been. Lennie is different from George and all of the other workers, he still acts like a little boy. Even though he is by far one of the strongest workers, he is still treated differently because of the way he acts. When Steinbeck says “George says I gotta stay here an’ not get in no trouble.” (Steinbeck 34) He is showing that Lennie always does what George tells him and to me this makes him seem kind of lonely. George’s philosophy about workers who travel alone is that they will never make it because they don’t have someone else to look out for them, they will spend all of their money and never be successful. George really looks up to Slim because he is the hardest worker and George really admires that because he is so hardworking himself. Crooks is the lone black worker on a farm filled with whites, he was kicked by a horse and has a crooked back, given the name, Crooks. Crooks is forced to live in a room by himself, with the farm animals, away from all the other white workers just because of his skin color. Crooks is always by himself and being ignored because of his skin color and when Lennie puts an interest in hi,, he takes advantage of that because he can finally rake advantage of someone like the white workers always take advantage of him. Crooks has a dream farm idea and is eager to share it with someone; he is always alone and being ignored so he has a lot of time to think and wants to share his ideas with someone. When Crooks says “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me.” (34 Steinbeck) This is showing Crooks to be sort of rude as …show more content…
Crooks doesn’t get a lot of contact with the other workers, and after Lennie and Candy came in to talk to him he was really happy. But, when Lennie and Candy were forced to leave Crooks’s room, he was really upset. He curled up into a ball on his bed and was sad once again. When Candy loses his dog, he becomes extremely sad and is even less strong than he was before. His dog was his last source of love and after it was forced away from him, he felt as if he had nothing. George had a very hard decision to make whether to kill Lennie or not. The other workers were going to get a hold of Lennie and torture him and then either kill him or put him in jail for the murder of Curley’s wife. For George to have to kill his best friend to a lot of strength, but also took away a lot of strength and happiness that Lennie provided him. “You got a nice cozy little place in here…” Candy is looking for companionship with Crooks and he probably thinks it is easy because Crooks doesn’t really have anyone at the farm to call his friend because he is