OMAM Blog Post 4

Danielle Kain

2/9/16

OMAM Blog #4

     Throughout the section, there is many places that prove Curley's Wife feels lonely. In OMAM, Steinbeck often refers to loneliness in general with many characters, but the character I'll talk about in this post is Curley's Wife. “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 stick in that house alla time?” This was a quote said by Curley's Wife when she was talking to Crooks, Lennie, and Candy. I think she goes out to the ranch and asks for Curley because she gets lonely by herself in the house all day and just wants to talk to someone. It's her way of getting attention and entertainment. I also think another person who suffers from loneliness in this book is Crooks. When he was talking to Lennie, he said himslef "S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house and play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d you like that? S’pose you had to sit out here an’ read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody—to be near him.” He then said “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,” he cried, “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.” I think that Crooks has been suffering from loneliness for a long time and that Lennie is actually making him feel less lonely just by his presence. I predict that there will be more loneliness to come in this book.

What do you think, did Curley's wife and Crooks feel lonely? If so, why do you think they feel that way?