AP term paper on dreams and loneliness in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place...With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go." (Steinbeck 14) George speaks these words to his companion, …

…is set, with a depression going on, and many migrant workers traveling the countryside alone. Almost every character in the book experiences loneliness and depression at one time or another. While the types of loneliness felt by the different characters, such as George, Candy, Crooks, and Curley's Wife, all appear to be very different and on different levels, they are similar in the fact that everyone feels some type at a point in their life.