just the three ?. . . weak ones here? (Steinbeck,84), when Curley?s wife is lonely and wants to join them, they won?t let her: ?Maybe you better go along to your own house now. We don?t want no trouble.? (Steinbeck,85). In the end, her loneliness costs her her life. She is so lonely that one day she even tries to have a conversation with Lenny and he accidentally kills her.The third lonely outcast is Crooks. He is the only black person living on the ranch and he is crippled. He is forced to live apart from the other men in the bunkhouse ??Cause I?m black. They play cards in there, but I can?t play because I?m black. They say I stink.? (Steinbeck,75). His only contact with them is through work or a game of horseshoes once in a while. He spends his nights alone, reading in his MartinoPage 3room. He is always alone with no one to talk to because ? . . . there ain?t a colored man on this ranch . . . . If I say something, why it?s just a nigger sayin? it.? (Steinbeck,77). But even though Crooks is proud and bitter, he wants companionship, too. He tells Lennie, ?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.? (Steinbeck,80).In conclusion, there are three characters who are even lonelier than the rest of the lonely ranch hands. They are also treated like outcasts by the others because they don?t fit in with the other ranch hands? ideas of what is ?normal.? Lennie, because he is retarded; Curley?s wife, because she is a woman; and Crooks, because he is black are all left out of any kind of socializing that goes on at the ranch. But these three want companionship even more than the others do. They are examples of the way the world treats outcasts in society. People have prejudices against those who don?t fit in with what is considered ?normal,? and all these lonely outcasts get left out for many different reasons. ...
