Of Mice And Men
...Men, by John Steinbeck, the importance of friendship is represented by two of the most different people. Through the story, George and Lennie face many struggles that together they overcome. After being chased out of Weed for charges of rape, they start a new job on a ranch in California trying to raise enough money, so they can buy a place together. As time goes on, they realize how they are different from the rest of the workers. George and Lennie are the only two farm workers that travel, eat, and work together. They meet people such as Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s Wife who all crave the companionship of a fellow friend. Each character has there own reason for the desire of a friend. Although it seems that George and Lennie are not at all alike, they share a bond between each other that no one else can understand. In this story Steinbeck shows the very importance of friendship and how lost we are without it.
Loneliness is portrayed in many different forms. Crooks, a black stable buck, is discriminated by all the workers on the ranch. Crooks is not given any freedom or rights to do what he wants to do. Instead he is stuck in his room by the barn reading books. Crooks lives in a time that no matter what he does or tries, he will always be considered a colored man: “Well, you keep your place then, Nigger” and just like that, a person can be make and then “Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego” (81). Crooks has no one else that can stand by his side because no one else on the ranch is in the same position as him. Others cannot tell him everything will be all right because to Crooks it would mean absolutely nothing. No one else is in the same position as Crooks, so nobody else can feel the loneliness he is confronted with because of his skin color.
Candy is faced with a different form of loneliness. He is an old man, who is...
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