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Crooks is african american he is considered “dirty” and unwanted by the other workers on the ranch. Crooks helps reveal the theme of loneliness because he feel isolated due to the fact he is treated like an animal, kept separate from the other workers on the ranch, and is the only black employee on the ranch. The first reason crooks is lonely and isolated is because the workers and owners of the ranch treat him as if he was an animal: “I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in…

Small and George Milton to show the loneliness within friendship. In contrast, with the relationship between a man and dog to reveal loneliness in a man who has nothing but an old companion. The relationship between Curley’s wife and other men on the ranch is another relationship the author used. The story of Crooks additionally helps with the unraveling of the theme and its correlation with friendship. Lennie and George’s friendship along with Candy and his dog’s friendship are used to…

experienced just that. These characters go by the names of Lennie Small and George Milton; they seek refuge from the situation that had gone on in their original town of Weed. They obtain a job on a ranch and seek to gain a stake as hefty enough to purchase land to start their dream of forming a ranch to work and live on. But Lennie's strength and unpredictable behavior got the best of him, and he murdered a woman, causing his own execution. Even though throughout the novel, the relationship…

and she uses it to flirt with the men on the ranch and make her husband jealous. She is utterly alone on the ranch, and always seeks attention from every little thing. Even though Curley’s wife is a woman of beauty and a woman that desires to talk to anybody her loneliness can always wear her down. She is always seeking attention and finding ways to talk to some of them men on the ranch but she still feels entirely alone. None of the men on the ranch care for Curley’s Wife and very little…

many different characters. One of the characters we are introduced to is Curley 's wife who is represented as a very lonely and selfish person. Steinbeck also portrays Curley 's wife as a dangerous and cautious person towards others working at the ranch, so a reader throughout the novel would have ideas about her.Reflecting the preconceived society, Steinbeck 's novels is a microcosm Blacks people were seen as 'nobody 's '; they had no rights.Curley 's wife represents that women too had only a…

married to the ranch owner’s son, does not seem like a significant character in the beginning of the novel. As the story progresses, Curley’s wife is seen talking to the other men on the ranch, and consulting them about where she might find Curley. The men treat her badly because she has a husband and is not supposed to be talking to them. Near the end of the novel, she reveals some of the reasons for her actions. Curley’s wife is described in unfavorable ways by the men on the ranch, which…

Candy, an older ranch worker with a tough past, represents the inequality towards age in Of Mice and Men. Candy is a hard worker, who spent his best years working at someone's ranch until he suffers an accident, consisting of him losing a hand, and was left with little money. Now he works in this ranch at Salinas Valley, northern California. Candy lives with a fear that the second he is considered not helpful…

most people experience at some point in their life. Whether it is as a child without parents or an elderly person who lost their spouse, loneliness is almost inevitable. In the novel Of Mice and Men (1937) George and Lennie, along with many other ranch workers, experience loneliness in their own way. It is the time of the Great Depression and businesses are failing, people cannot rely on anyone else to become successful. In fact, this book is about dreams and how they can be achieved (Attell 1).…

friend and to make a conversation with someone. Curley’s wife was trying to make a conversation with Lennie. But everyone she tries to talk to are afraid to even look at her because of her jealous husband, Curley. Since, she is the only woman on the ranch and has nobody to talk to not even her own husband. I think women should have their “Girlys” to talk to share secrets and gossip.” Sure I got a man. He aint never home got nobody to be with think I can jus’ sit home and do nothing but cook for…

who took care of Lennie, a big guy that has a mind of a little kid. When these two men started working at a ranch in the Salinas Valley they meet a black…