Nearly all characters suffer from loneliness and so there are many scenes that show this. The two that probably show this the most is George and Lennie. They travel together to fight against lonelines, but there are several situations reminding us that they are still lonely. We can call George a lonely man because Lennie always forgets things he is told and so George does not really have someone to talk to. This seems to make George angry. Ironically George says to Slim in a later part of the novel, that guys who travel alone get mean: "I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain´t no good. They don´t have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin´ to fight all the time." (Steinbeck 55).

Another character who is lonely because of discrimination is Curley´s wife. She is the onl

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