Loneliness is a feeling that no one should ever feel, however, it is a feeling that many come to have at one point in their lives or another. While working on the ranch, Lennie and George. John Steinbeck is a famous American author who wrote many books.
He grew up in Salinas, California which would become a common setting for many of his stories. Of Mice and Men takes place after the Great Depression. Many are poor and looking for work. Our two main characters are migrant workers looking to find work so they can eventually operate their own farm.
A majority of the characters in the story suffer from loneliness and search for ways to escape that lonely feeling.
In his novella, Of Mice. This shows that loneliness does not only affect you mentally but also physically. Being lonely makes your stress levels rise because of the lack in somebody to talk to. In Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, he develops the concept of loneliness through Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife, to show the negative impact of loneliness on somebody's life.
Crooks is the only african american on the farm and everyone on the farm. Loneliness, it's a strange thing to think about since it isn't a problem these days, but during the Great Depression and times around this loneliness was not rare at all.
The most lonely characters in the story by far were Crooks The dark man that works on the ranch , and Candy the old one handed man that operates on the ranch. These two characters were not described directly as lonely, but it grew. Loneliness is a revolving topic throughout the book. Many characters are impacted by it and this changes the outcome of the book. His dog is old and weak; he is disabled.
Candy is reluctant to allow Carlson to shoot his dog, but eventually gives in and allows him to do it. At the end of the workday, Slim and George return to the bunkhouse. Although Carlson promises to kill the dog painlessly, his insistence that the old animal must die supports a cruel natural law that the strong will dispose of the weak.
Candy is friendly and talkative, and despite the fact that he is afraid of losing his job because of his physical impairment, he is still hopeful he will be able to have his own stake in the future. Candy has his dog, who is also old and crippled, to keep him company. This is significant for two reasons. First, he is thought of as a possession and he is not thought of as important enough to have a name.
He says a little later that it is making him crazy. He wants to live on a ranch with George and Lennie, and even decides to pitch in his life savings so they can buy it together. Candy is a dynamic character. Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.
By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader. Crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back.
Like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. When Lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact. Candy is lonely because he is devoid of any real human contact. He is kept as a cleaner on the ranch on the account of losing his hand in a machinery accident. He does not have any real human connection with anyone on the ranch, as most ranch-hands are more focused on their own job, making their bit, and not on him.
The next morning, George and Lennie arrive at the ranch and go to the bunkhouse. The old swamper, Candy, informs them the boss is mad because they were supposed to arrive the night before. George and Lennie are the only characters in the novel who have a meaningful relationship.
This makes them unique and draws attention to the loneliness of the rest of the characters in the book. Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. George uses the pronouns they and we to emphasise how different he and Lennie are from other men who work on ranches.
They are separate from the rest of the characters on the ranch.
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