Crooks is not allowed to be close friends with anyone or participate in the fun stuff other Ranch workers are able to enjoy.
These things combined with others cause Crooks to feel inferior and lonely. He feels as though there is no one on the Ranch he can be friends with. Crooks is one of the loneliest people on the ranch and the saddest because he is unable to do things normal people could do because of his color.
Candy was a character who felt the despair of loneliness when he was forced to have his best and only friend killed. His friend was a loyal and loving sheepdog that grew up with Candy and had stuck with him through thick and thin.
Candy felt he had no one to live for anymore. This is a horrible tragedy because Candy allowed the lonesomeness to devour his hopes of living. She was lonely because everyone stereotyped her and refused to talk to her on the Ranch.
Her loneliness was not the worst kind. She was however almost as much exiled as Crooks, yet she allowed her position on the Ranch to manipulate others so she could have friends. All these characters were lonely. Steinbeck's characters are often the underdogs, and he shows compassion toward them throughout the body of his writings. Powerlessness takes many forms — intellectual, financial, societal — and Steinbeck touches on them all. Although Lennie is physically strong and would therefore seem to represent someone of power, the only power Lennie possesses is physical.
Because of his mental handicap and his child-like way of perceiving the world, he is powerless against his urges and the forces that assail him.
For example, he knows what it is to be good, and he doesn't want to be bad, but he lacks the mental acuity that would help him understand and, therefore, avoid the dangers that unfold before him. Hence, he must rely on George to protect him. George, in this regard, is also powerless. Although he can instruct Lennie on what to do and not do, and although he perceives the danger posed by Curley's wife, he cannot be with Lennie every hour of every day and, therefore, cannot truly protect Lennie from himself.
In the end, the only thing that George can do is protect Lennie from the others. Another type of powerlessness is economic. Because the ranch hands are victims of a society where they cannot get ahead economically, they must struggle again and again. But they are not the only ones who have shared the dream of owning land, nor the only ones who have difficulty securing the mean by which to do it.
As Crooks explains, "I seen guys nearly crazy with loneliness for land, but ever' time a whorehouse or a blackjack game took what it takes. As long as the men spend their money on the weekends, they will continue to be powerless.
On the other hand, living lives of unremitting loneliness and harshness makes companionship — even for a weekend — alluring enough to overshadow a dream. Furthermore, the men are paid so little that it is difficult to save enough to make a dream come true. Crooks represents another type of powerlessness. This essay will now question how Steinbeck addresses loneliness within 'Of Mice and Men'. At the very beginning, Steinbeck establishes the theme of loneliness in of mice and men by setting the novella in ' Soledad' this translates from Spanish to solitude.
The majority of characters within the novella are ranchmen, these were traditionally lonely because they constantly had to travel around to various places to find work. Therefore, Steinbeck is highlighting the repetitive lifestyles of workers during the Dustbowl and the Great Depression, where there was considerable unemployment, which resulted in many individuals feeling worthlessness and isolated.
George and Lennie however, travel around together since they came from Weed and moved to this new ranch. Their relationship makes others such as Curly very suspicious of them. Even George highlights that they differ with all of the other individuals in the novella as he states " Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.
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