The Theme Of Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice Of Men

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I the book of the Mice Of Men written by John Steinbeck, this essay will be talking about 3 characters and why they are lonely and there dreams. The three characters I will be talking about are Curly’s Wife ,Crooks,and Candy.
The first person this essay will be talking about is Candy and his dream is to go with George and Lennie because soon he will get to old to do anything. “They’ll can me pretty soon. Jus as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me on the country”.(Steinbeck 60). The reason for this is also because candy also says “I ain’t much good with on’y on hand.”(Steinbeck 59) another detail why Candy says he will do all this stuff is so when he is to ancient and absolutely useless he can still have a place to stay. So to finally maybe get a chance to get in on Georges plans to get a little farm is candy tells him that he could put all the money he’s got. “ Maybe if I give you
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Since he lived alone in the barn he was able to leave is stuff around and about. “And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions;for being alone, crooks could leave his things about,” (Steinbeck 66) As he became so accustomed to being lonely he pushed people away as a safety mechanism an example of this was when lennie had came to his room he felt threatened. “ He kept his distance and demanded that other people kept theirs,”(Steinbeck 67) the reason he kept his distance is because everyone is mean to him. Crooks dream is to go with candy and george and lennie and work on the farm with them. “...If you...guys would want a hand to work for nothing - just his keep why i’d come an’ lend a hand. I ain’t so crippled I can’t work like a son-of-a-bitch if I want to.”(Steinbeck 76) this implies that he is trying to get in on the plan but saying what he can do to help them out so he could get recruited in the

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