In trying to understand your question, it seems you have
already answered it. Therefore, I will help you support
it.
Before the story, George hooked up with Lennie somehow.
Most people don't go out of their way to choose a disabled person to befriend, however
George seems to be rather welcoming of Lennie's companionship even if it is a pain most
of the time. This was desperate.
During the story, we see
several examples of lonliness leading to desperation. Curley's wife says she could have
been in pictures. She seems to have struggled with her mom because mom hindered that
life for her. I think running away and marrying Curley of all men (and it sounds like
this happened on a whim) was a desperate act borne of the lonliness she felt being
cooped up by her mother.
Crooks also took a shot at Lennie
when Lennie came to visit with him as a result of lonliness. If Crooks had any practice
at being friends, he would not have uttered the hurtful words he did to Lennie in
suggesting that George would desert him.
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