Of Mice And Men Companionship Essay

In Dire Need of Companionship The book “Of Mice and Men” features great friendships and great rivalries. However, some of these people only desire the companionship of others. The two characters Crooks and Curley’s wife are the most desperate when it comes to the need of friendship, often resorting to even the most desperate of measures to get some of the attention they want. Crooks and Curley’s wife crave the attention of others, but are not able to achieve companionship. Curley’s wife has resorted to almost everything to get some of the attention that her husband never gives her. She flirts with every guy that works at the farm and since she is the only female there she is given plenty of attention even if it is often negative from the men. Most of the men on the farm despise her because they see her flirting as a way to get them in trouble with Curley who is the boss's son and could get them fired. Lennie knows no better however and so she is desperate enough to flirt with him because he is the only one that will talk back to her because he does not know that he will get in trouble with Curley. You can tell however that she does not mind
Crooks is forced to live in the barn because of his skin colour, he is heavily discriminated against and due to this has little outside communication with anyone else since he lives in the barn and because of his colour. This causes him to be rude to Lennie and attempt to push him away when all Lennie wants to do is be friends. Later on though Crooks is hesitant when Lennie tries to leave because he sees Lennie is not like the rest of the people and that he genuinely wants to be friends with Crooks. This shows that he is very lonely and that the feeling of companionship is uncommon to him. Crooks believes that “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”