The classic book “Of Mice and Men,” by John Steinbeck & Kevin Hinkle shares a common theme throughout the text that is expressed in many different personalities and perspectives. Amongst the unique characters each one carries the ultimate theme, Loneliness and shows it in their own way. From start to finish during the lives of the characters in the book factors of loneliness occur for each, it is part of life and is the major theme regarding the book. Lennie and George are the main characters of the book, who from the very beginning were unwanted and have seemed to have always been an outcast ever since they could remember. Trouble has always outrun them no matter how hard they try to get away from it, whether it’s a quick judgement towards them or being in the right place at the wrong time. They have never seemed to figure it out. George and Lennie have never had a stable life, no one knew who they were and no one cared to find out. These two men lived off of whatever they could get their hands on, although to others it never seemed they had dreams or ambitions.. but they did. Just like everyone else. Although they seemed to have excepted their harsh lifestyle from moving place to place deep down they too wanted to be someone. For example the times Lennie and George sat down in the river bottom and told each other stories about one day what they would have, not because they would actually get it but because they were comforting each other because no one else has ever been there for them. At the end of the book, after Lennie dies, the tone of the book and the dialogue of George is depressive, the only one who has always been there for him is gone. The main part of the book takes place on a farm where Lennie and George work and are given low pay but good shelter and food where they planned to make enough cash to buy some land of their very own. While they worked on the farm with many others, two huge characters of the book also e