1. Loneliness

2. Crooks Skin colour Racial Prejudice Disability
Childhood- only black family in area
“A guy needs someone- to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long as he’s with you. I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”

3. Curley’s Wife Only woman on the ranch Female Discrimination
Unhappy marriage
Unreachable ambitions
Inferiorly treated
Feels trapped
“-Sat’iday night. Ever’body out doin’ some’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs-”

4. Candy Everyone he befriends always leaves His dog Hopes and dreams
He’s older than everyone else
“You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do noting like that. I won’t have no place to go”

5. George Only has Lennie most of the time Hasn’t really got a choice
Always has to give up his hopes and dreams
Sacrificing things for Lennie
Can’t find himself a wife and have a family
“No- look! I was jus’ foolin’, Lennie. ‘Cause I want you to stay with me”
“I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Somebody’d shoot you for a coyote”

6. Whit People leaving all the time
Excitement when he hears of another person who worked at the ranch before
“Whit found the place again but he did not surrender his hold on it. He pointed out the letter with his forefinger.”