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In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck looks at the

theme of loneliness as it affects many characters on the

ranch. Crooks, Curley's wife, and Candy are the most

excluded characters on the ranch, because they all have

dreams that they will not be able to live out and they all are

at loss when it came to companionship. Crooks is lonely

because he is the only black man on the ranch. Since this

book is set during the Depression, Jim Crow laws are still in

effect, whites and blacks had separate facilities for socializing

and living. Crooks comments that he can't live in the

bunkhouse, and cannot
even play cards in there. "I cannot
' play

because I'm black. They say I stink."(68) This quote

illustrates that Crooks feels the pain of rejection more that he

let's people see. In fact, Crooks protects himself by acting

like a "proud and aloof man."(67) The full extent of Crooks's

suffering is made clear in chapter 4 when Crooks lashes out

at Lennie. Viewing Lennie as a......

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