Loneliness can hurt a person. It makes them feel like they are an animal all alone in an empty forest. Just getting by. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men he uses animal imagery to portray the personality and actions of his characters showing the loneliness of the characters.
Sometimes Lennie liked to do things like an animal. That’s just the way Lennie did things. In the beginning of the novel Lennie Dropped to his knees and started drinking water from a stagnant water like how a wolf would in the wild. Quoted on page 3 “His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool.”. This shows that Lennie needs George for companionship and not to get lonely. George uses