Of+Mice+and+Men

Of Mice and Men
====**Loneliness, something everyone hates to go through. In the story __Of Mice and Men__ by John Steinbeck, Eric Hoffer once said “It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men and of dogs.” What does this mean? Well it means that the people who are the loneliest talk the loudest because they are so lonely and they don’t know haw to fix that so they talk a lot. All though throughout the story there is many characters that are lonely but the ones that are the loneliest is Crook, Curley’s Wife, and Candy.**==== ====**One of the people in this book is Crook. He is a very lonely person. He is just an African man with no friends. Although the only friends he has is his bunk house and books. Crook once said “A guys set alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that.” (73). This just shows how he feels because no one ever talks to him at all. A person with a life like this is not very happy about that. Everyone knows that a person with this kind of life is something knows is ever willing to have.**==== ====**Candy another person who’s life has been ruined. Candy once had a dog that was his only friend but soon the other guys had to shoot it because it was too old. He did not want it to happen but it was the best choice. Although it finally had to happen, so he said “Awright – take ‘im.”(47) That decision he made really changed his life. From that day on he regretted it but he realized it was the right thing to do. The worst mistake he made was letting the guys do it instead of him.**==== ====**Curley’s wife, someone everyone did not talk to. She once said “You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley.”(87) She had a hard time because no one would talk to her cause of Curley. Even though she hated it there was nothing she could do about it. She would get so mad because when she would try to have a conversation with someone she would get yelled at.**====

====**In the end there were very many people that were lonely but there was nothing they could about that. Hopefully in the future they all have a better life except Curley’s wife because she dies. Also remember that you are lonely only if you want to be.**====