Crook’s suggests she depart. As she refuses to leave, and continues to harass Lennie, Crook’s acknowledges his room being his only possession, commanding her to depart. As the two bicker, Curley’s
Crooks as mentioned earlier has a very bitter mind and attitude toward people because of his constant isolation. In one interaction with Curley’s wife Crooks' broken spirit can easily be seen. As she was yelling at him, “Crooks stared helplessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself… Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall… Crooks had reduced himself to nothing.
Throughout the novel Curley’s wife is presented as a character low on the hierarchy so the fact that she is still able to threaten Crooks, shows the extent of his vulnerability. Steinbeck presents the idea that Crooks cannot defend himself because being black no one would ever listen to him, and consequently that he is easily blamed and easily punished, depicting him as a victim of
We all may have had the feeling of loneliness and isolation, wanting companionship feeling abandonment. In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, there are men living on a ranch having their own reasons for loneliness or being isolated. The three characters Crooks, George, and Lennie crusade dealing with own ways of loneliness and isolation. Crooks has no one that likes him because he’s black, Lennie struggles mentally and George struggles with always having to care for him. They all can’t decide whether it is that they want to be alone or not.
"I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 73) said Crooks. During the Great Depression, many migrant workers experienced this first hand. In John Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men, many characters also experience this feeling. Of Mice and Men tells the story of George and Lennie, two migrant workers who travel to Soledad to work on a new farm. In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, the idea that loneliness brings out the worst in people is shown through the characters of Crooks, Curley's wife, and Candy.
When Curley’s wife, a White woman, harasses the men in Crooks’ room, he yells at her to leave them alone, only backing down when she threatens to have him lynched. This incident shows that Crooks will not allow other people to walk over him and by yelling at Curley’s Wife he recognizes that he deserves the same respect the other ranchers have. Crooks says to Lennie “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (Steinbeck 68).
What does it mean to be lonely? Well in John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men he shows loneliness to be the lack of having someone to talk to or to simply have human interactions with, which everyone needs. Steinbeck does this by telling the story of two men, George and Lennie and a lonely world that they live in. Characters like crooks and Curley’s Wife are experiencing the loneliness that is seen as a common theme in the novel. Crooks’ words to Lennie about loneliness was the strongest reinforces to the theme of the novel, because Crooks’ words where the first and biggest flat-out saying that without someone we get lonely.
Loneliness can take place in any environment, it can happen to anyone, and it always has a real, severe reason behind it. During the process of reading the book “Of MIce And Men” we met different characters, with different personalities, lived very different lives, and each one of them had a backstory or an experience that led to their feeling of loneliness. For example, with ‘Crooks’, his loneliness came from an experience of racism, because he was “black”, he didn’t have a place in between the other men, and he was even assigned a bunk alone because of that reason. With Lennie, his feeling of loneliness came from the lack of love, and attention his whole life, from his childhood up until he was a grown man. With Curley’s wife, she had no
Loneliness is around the world. Loneliness is in the story. George and Lennie depended on each other for the story. Lennie character sticked out to me. Without George, Lennie would be lonely.
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of walls” Joseph F. Newton. Loneliness is an important feeling, that everybody experiences at some point of their life, growing up or in their busy daily lives. In the novel, of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are characters that feel loneliness cause of race, gender or personalities, and their identity is being hidden, they are abandoned by people, they can’t communicate their self to others. Loneliness can make you have bad heath and it will make you do stuff that is dangerous for you and that can hurt others. Candy is a character that felt loneliness because he had nobody else to look up to or ask for help Candy also feels lonely when George and Lennie are talking about their dream
Multiple studies in 2012 suggest that isolation increases risk of death caused from heart complications, though even before then, John Steinbeck knew that loneliness was harmful. The characters all have some feeling of loneliness, but it affected them differently and their loneliness is different for each of them as well. Some of them are broken, some are desperate, and they all are hurt. Steinbeck uses this element to convey relation between the characters, while seeing the clear differentiation.
Furthermore, Crooks is lonely and does not have anyone to talk to. When Crooks is
In Crooks’ corner, the reader sees an isolated man come out of his shell to protect not only his newfound friends, but also to protect the idea of a life where he is no longer alone. Crooks breather some courageous air and faces Curley’s wife after she attempts to bully Lennie into admitting he crippled Curley: “’I had enough,’ he said coldly. ‘You got no right comin’ in a colored man’s room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus’ get out, and get out quick’”(78).
A key aspect of any novel or story is the way the characters interact and feel towards everything. In John Steinbeck’s, “Of Mice and Men”, the characters tend to give off the effect of loneliness and the feeling of isolation throughout the novel. The main characters that give off the effect of loneliness and the feeling of isolation are Curley’s wife, Crooks, and George. They’ve been truly alone, if not in mind then in body.
One of the most obvious characters used in the novel to depict isolated at its greatest extent is Crooks, who is described as an outcast separated from the rest of the men because of his race. In the early 1900’s, racism was very common as white people thought they were superior to black people. Crooks’ loneliness is implied through his belongings, but also admits to being so lonely as he says, “S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy
