Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The characters in the book Of Mice and Men Crooks and Candy they are all alone in their own life. They all run from isolation in tell they have nothing. The reason why Crooks is isolated is because of his own skin color. Crooks is the only black man on the ranch, and because he's black he can’t go into the house with the others, because of his skin color and he doesn’t talk with the white men. He handles his loneliness with hard work and books, he starts to realizes that the things he does to handle his loneliness are not suitable for a humans friendship. Candy's dog prevents Candy from being lonely in the world with its love but after the dog died. Candy was alone so he makes himself a part of George and Lennie's big dream. Steinbeck
shows the reader how these two men are alone. Steinbeck writes, “I wish somebody would shoot me when I become useless". In other words, Candy says that because he’s thinks he is useless with one arm and he doesn't have his companion to love which makes him alone. This is significant because it shows that being alone is hard. Steinbeck also shows the reader how having a different skin color is hard. Steinbeck writes, S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick”