<span>"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person"</span>
Many people believe ET is supposed to be a Christ like figure and symbolizes when Jesus Christ was crucified, eventually resurrected and was taken into heaven (ET was taken home by a UFO at the end of the film) when ET tells Eliot he will always be "right here", and gestures to Eliot's heart, is believed to symbolize the Christian faith.
Personally, I believe it's a story of how friends come from all sorts of places and may look different but give a genuine friendship. Kind of a "don't judge a book by it's cover" story.
<span>Curley's wife suffers a similar type of loneliness that Crooks suffers from. While she is married to Curley, the boss's son, she seems to have no relationship with the man. Near the end of the novel, she tells Lennie she doesn't like being around her husband because "He ain't a nice fella." She is always looking for him while he is always looking for her. There is not one part of the novel when the two are seen together. She deals with her loneliness in looking for comfort from the other men</span>
