Of Mice and Men

Without a friend or someone to talk to, you’d become awfully lonely; you’d possibly go mad. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, loneliness is a significant theme. Crooks, an African-American man who suffers from discrimination due to his skin color, endures intense solitude, for he’s denied the privilege to enter and sleep in the bunk house with the rest of the men. Curley’s wife, the only female character in the novel, undergoes extreme isolation. She is never given a name, and only referred to as the wife of Curley. She represents a sexual object more than an individual with the same emotions as everyone else. Both Crooks and Curley’s wife experience feelings of ostracism, and they both suffer from the wrath of discrimination.
Crooks suffers from severe loneliness due the color of his skin. The unfortunate man undergoes intensely cruel treatment for being an African-American. He had no one to talk to, no one to be with, and no one to comfort him due to his isola...