Jus som'thin" that was his." He also offers to work on the farm. Candy does not seem to have a dream until he meets Lennie and George. He is swept up by the reality of this dream, a dream he would be to scared to start up on his own. Candy large amount of money makes it hard for George any Lennie to resists his offer. Candy clings to the hope of a nice future, but after Lennie Kills Curley's wife and shatters the reality of the dream Candy becomes hopeless again.
Curley's Wife has a different dream. Instead of something to call her own, she wants fame, fortune and admiration. She tells the three "bindle stiffs" about her offers of fame "An" a guy told" me he could put me in the pitchers ." She is unhappy with her husband, as his constant stories of who he is going to beat up next.
Loneliness is another 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 alone and his jealousy towards Lennie comes out when he starts to be really spiteful to him suggesting George won't come back for him. I feel all the years of being picked on for being black and not being allowed in the ranch workers bunkhouse "I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse, you ain't wanted in my room." It his chance to make someone else feel what he feels. While Lennie is in his room he realises in can confide in Lennie and trust him with his secrets, then Curleys" wife comes into the room and crooks gets annoyed because he was having a good conversation which he doesn't get to have often so he tells her to "jus" get out, an" get out quick." So she snaps back at him "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny" and that's when crooks become insecure and "sat down on his bunk and drew into himself.
