Loneliness is a basic part of human life. Every one becomes lonely once in a while but in Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men", he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life in the early 1930's and shows how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness. Steinbeck creates a lonely and blue atmosphere at many times in the book. He uses names and words such as the town near …showed first 75 words of 2103 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2103 total…he will go into the same direction as his dog, which is probably true. It is obvious that all the workers on the ranch will die a sad and lonely death, mainly because they had no friends. If this book taught me anything, it`ll have to be, every body needs a friend to talk to, no matter what race, sex or age, you have to have companionship to prevent you from suffering from loneliness.