Loneliness
Loneliness is a state of being alone in sadness, resulting from being forsaken or abandoned you have no one to talk to, no one to trust, nor anyone to keep company with. In this novel Of Mice And Men it deals with loneliness by looking for comfort in a friend, but settling for an ear of a stranger. Although these characters seem at ease and friendly on the surface, a deep sense of loneliness lingers in the hearts of Crooks, George, and Curley's wife, they are all desperate to find an escape from being alone from the rest of the society. Crooks leads a lonely life. He lives according to the rule that no black man is allowed to enter a white man's home. Crooks loneliness is a result of rejection from everyone else on the ranch. As a black man with a physical handicap, crooks is forced to live his life alone in a barn because of his color. When Lennie visits him in his room, Crooks bitter, sad and touching outcome reveals as he tells Lennie: "A guy needs somebody--to be near him. 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.... I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick." (page72-3) Crooks openness of his inner self, and his ability to
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Approximate Word count = 957
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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