Please help me with the thesis statement for this topic: "The theme of loneliness in Of Mice and Men and 'Eleanor Rigby.’"

These are two great texts to compare and contrast based on
the theme of loneliness. Both texts present us with figures who are desperately lonely
and struggling to find purpose in their lives. Note how Eleanor Rigby and Father
Mackenzie are presented as isolated, failed and purposeless individuals. No one listens
to Father Mackenzie's sermons, and although Eleanor Rigby has a "face in a jar by the
door" the song haunts us with the question "Who is it for?" Eleanor Rigby ends up dying
unknown and unlamented, and Father Mackenzie ends having to face the fact that "no-one
was saved" through his work.

Similarly, the characters in
Of Mice and Men are desperate to try and stave off loneliness as
best they can. There is something pathetic in the way that Candy is so ready to cling on
to the dream of George and Lennie, and likewise Curley's Wife is so hungry for human
warmth that she even endangers herself by going to Lennie to find companionship.
Therefore a thesis statement that you could use to compare these texts would
be:

Of Mice and Men and "Eleanor
Rigby" present us with a series of figures who struggle with
loneliness.

This would allow you to explore the various
presentations of loneliness and lack of significance in these two texts. Good luck! This
is an interesting question to consider.