... idea explored by Steinbeck. Loneliness is a disease, making people feel isolated and wanting companionship. In "Of mice and Men" Steinbeck outlines characters loneliness showing the strong and weak and how its devastates there lives. Crooks the loneliest character of the whole book. No one to speak to no one to be with, no one to speak with and no one to keep him from going mad. He is completely ... as Lennie says, "I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you and that's why." So when George had to shoot Lennie after killing Curley's wife, just like Candy's dog he didn't...

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