How Is Curley's Wife Lonely

People are lonely in the book Of Mice and Men. Curley’s wife is lonely, Crooks is lonely, Candy is lonely without his pup, and Lennie is lonely in his own special way. Many characters have a lonely trait in the book, Crooks isn’t aloud to hang around with the ranch hands because he is a different color than the other people that work on the ranch. Curley is always leaving his wife to sit in the house by herself so Curley’s wife gets really lonely. When Carlson shot Candy’s dog that really broke his heart causing him to be lonely.

“No I couldn’t do that to him (the dog), I had him too long” (45, Steinback)

Candy really cared about his dog, he has had him since the dog was a puppy, so of course Candy has a lot of love for the dog. When
Well his mind is lonely most of the time throughout the book because he is mentally unstable, he doesn’t really know what is going on around him and he doesn’t really remember a lot of the things that George tells him. Lennie is also lonely because his Aunt Clara died when he was younger, and she was the one that took him in and raised him since he was a baby. He is also lonely because he just wants to pet the mice and not kill them, but he always ends up killing them because they bite him and he snaps their necks. With Lennie not really understanding what he is doing and snapping the mice’s neck he later in the book kills his puppy because he gets mad and hits the puppy in the head and kills it. After he kills the puppy Curley’s wife gets lonely and tries to talk to Lennie, he snaps her neck killing her. He then feels lonely when he does this because he thinks that George won’t let him tend the
Lennie is lonely because he can’t keep an animal alive and he always kills things even Curley’s wife. Crooks is lonely because he isn’t aloud to talk to any of the ranch hands because they are white and he is black they are not allowed to interact with other people if you have a different skin color. Candy is lonely because Carlson shot his pup since he’s had since the pup was born, now Candy doesn’t have a companion anymore. Each person in the story is lonely even more than just these people. They are all lonely in there own special way, they have different ways of being lonely throughout the book. George is even lonely or sometimes wishes he was alone and didn’t have to watch out for Lennie, he could have a house and girl and maybe even a good job, but instead he has to watch over Lennie. But they all have their ways of being lonely, just in different