Life With Loneliness
The depression mix, you take two wanderers, and one dim-wit, the other a begrudging protector, a man with one hand, a black stable buck, and a tramp you stir it with the fuel of circumstance and you get loneliness with a capital “L.” The combustible material Of Mice and Men is loneliness. John Steinbeck uses this as the landscape for the reader to feel what the characters feel and to bring them into the story, George & Lennie are tied together by loneliness George says to Lennie “Guys like us got no fambly…they aint got nobody in the worl that gives a hoot in hell about em-. ... John Steinbeck captures the experiences of society through the characters of Lennie, Curley’s wife, Candy, & Crooks in order to convey the importance of friendship & its power to overcome loneliness. ... These reasons make loneliness a theme for the depression. You shall see the characters and how they reflect on loneliness, and why it played a big role in this novel, John Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife as a stand in for the women of these times, their longings and loneliness “Well I aint givin you no trouble think I don’t like to talk to somebody eva once in awhile, think I like to stick in that house all the time.