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 * Final Essay “Of Mice and Men” **

“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs,” this quote by Eric Hoffer relates in so many words how the characters Candy, Crooks, and Curly Wife in “Of Mice and Men” live a lonely life.

The character Crooks who is probably the loneliness out of all of them. People don’t hang out with him because of the color of his skin. He doesn’t even sleep in the same area as them. In the book “Of Mice and Men” on page 72 Crooks expressed how truly lonely he is to Lennie, “S’pose you didn’t have nobody. S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy’ cause you were a different color. S’pose you had to sit out here an ‘read books. Sure you could play horse shoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long he’s with you. I tell ya!”Crook is just like most of the people on the ranch.

An old man Candy wasn’t really lonely because he had a dog. Who was his best friend in the book page 45 he said “I’m so used to him. I had him from a pup.” But, then one of the guys shot the dog with Candy’s permission. Now Candy is just like everybody else. He now as no one until he gets in on the deal with Lennie and George about getting a place of their own. For once after his best friend died he had something. And he got to share it with people. So now he wasn’t truly alone in the world. When he is too old to work he now has a place to go. By the end of the book all that he is planning with lennie and George goes down the drain when Lennie died. He dreamed a dreamed that will never become a reality

One of the characters that I also felt that were truly described in the quote by Eric Hoffer was Curly’s wife. She is just like the dogs that Eric Hoffer described she will talked to anybody even if they didn’t even want to talk to her. Also if it caused trouble by talking to them. She just wanted attention. She was the bosses’ wife and she wasn’t allowed to talk to the other guys even though there were no other females to talk to. The men could go out and have fun, but she couldn’t. In the book she said this to Candy and Crooks because they wanted nothing to do with her on page 77 “Well, I ain’t giving you no trouble. Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while? Think I like to stay in that house all the time?” She just lonely and wants to talk to other people besides her husband Curly.

As you can see, these 3 characters Crook, Candy, and Curly’s wife are we lonely. They are nothing like George and Lennie who have each other. They are truly alone in this world.