Of Mice And Me
...at a California ranch, loneliness is about all they have to look forward to and for 3 men names Candy, Crooks, and George. They face loneliness at a higher rate than most.
George the easy-going caretaker of lennie looks at loneliness a different way. George has been taking care of lennie ever since lennie's aunt Clara died a long time ago. Moving from ranch to ranch, George finds himself unable to keep a friendship. Traveling with lennie who is nowhere near the maturity level of an adult George cannot
hold a reasonable conversation. George finds himself yelling at lennie on a daily bias. "God a' mighty if I was alone I could live so easy. I could get a job and work and have no problems." George is showing loneliness by saying if he wasn't so lonely dealing with lennie he could maybe be happy.
Another lonely person on the ranch is candy. Candy is an old man that really does not have a place there. He does odd-in jobs and can't play any games with the younger men because of his age. The only thing candy had to call his own was his dog. Candy has had this dog since it was a puppy, and when they shot it because the dog is so old candy had noting to own. Candy says in the book "You seen what they did to my dog tonight? That says he wasn't no good to himself nor anyone else. When they can me here I wish they would shot me. But they wouldn't do anything like that. I won't have a place to go, and I can't get another job. By Candy saying this he is trying to say that the dog was all he had left, and that he can't leave because he won't be able to get another job.
The loneliest of them all is Crooks. Crooks were the stable buck that had his own room and didn't really talk with anyone. Because of the time period being black and looking for a job was hard. So Crook just had to deal with what ever he got. Crooks got left out of every thing that went on there. He...
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