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How Does Curley's Wife Show Loneliness
Everyone has their own loneliness side, and this also happens in the little ranch from John Steinbeck’s novel“Of Mice and Man”. In this story Curley's wife is always trying to talk with everyone but her husband Curley. There is another loneliness man in this story, he is Candy. Candy is an old character in that story, he has worked on that ranch for 10 more years with his old dog. Candy and Curley’s wife felt loneliness in this story. Curley's wife is a beautiful and the only woman in that novel’s ranch, her husband doesn’t trust her and the reason is she doesn’t like Curly,she said: “He ain’t a nice fella”(89). and Curly was the son of that ranch’s boss,so that nobody dare to talk with her, they do not want to get any trouble. So she is …show more content…
When he lost his dog and that dog is the only one he can talk with for 10 more years. Candy’s dog is very old, “at his heels there walked a dragfooted sheepdog, grey of muzzle, and with pale, blind old eyes. The dog struggled lamely to the side of the room and lay down, grunting softly to himself and licking his grizzled, moth-eaten coat.”(24), his old can do nothing for that ranch anymore. Carlson is the person who killed Candy’s dog for Candy, he thought this way is good for Candy. “Look, Candy, this ol’ dog jus’ suffers himself all the time If you was to take him out and shoot him right in the back of the head— ” (45). After we heard the bang of a gun, the old finally died. That dog was with candy so many years, there is nobody knows how’s feeling to Candy, Candy doesn’t want his dog die, “Candy looked for help from face to face.” (45) It's just like candy’s only friend in that little ranch, it was only “friend” he could talk. Candy felt loneliness so that he wants to know that happiness place where George and Lennie talking about“You know where’s a place like that?”(59) and he wants to go“S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hundred an’ fifty bucks I’d put in.”(59) Because If felt happiness He will not leave that ranch. Everyone has their own loneliness side, not just Candy and Curley’s wife. Because nobody talks with Curley's wife so he felt lonely, when candy lost his dog he felt lonely , what is the thing that when you lost, and you will be the one just like Curley’s wife and candy felt loneliness. The reality is always

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