The Great Depression took place in the 1930’s and had a large effect on many people’s lives. Lost jobs, economic decline, and uprooting of families were all results of this depression. John Steinbeck’s novel, Mice and Men, reflect this time period in which it was written. Through out the novel many characters experience loneliness, the most evident being Candy, Crooks and Curley’s wife. Crooks, a black stable buck that works on the …showed first 75 words of 801 total…

…showed last 75 words of 801 total…loneliness for different reasons. Candy was lonely because of his difference in age, Crooks because of his difference in race, and Curley’s wife because of her difference in sex. Steinbeck is trying to show the reader that the human race tends to isolate people who are different than the norm. It is obvious loneliness is the main theme of the novel Mice and Men as shown by these three characters who all experienced loneliness.