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Loneliness is something that becomes very evident in certain characters in Of Mice and Men. As you read Of Mice and Men you become aware of the fact that the author portrays loneliness throughout this book. Many of the characters in this book acknowledge to being lonely. The lonely feeling is more obvious in the characters Crooks, George, Lennie and Curley's wife. Therefore they each encounter a time of confessing to being alone.
Although a very proud and sometimes funny man, Crooks finds himself to be on the outside looking in. Even as a child playing with the white kids on the chicken farm, he felt isolated. Getting older, he still sees himself to be an outcast as he sleeps alone in the stables. He is not allowed on the white quarters with the others. Alone on his bunk, he finds himself reading books to ease the pain of loneliness. Crooks is always being left out of the social gatherings on the ranch. He is never invited to play cards or visit brothels.
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