Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
Of Mice And Men
Within this essay, I am going to have a discussion about some very different characters in John Steinbeck’s,” Of Mice and Men”. Each character is very different but all appear to have loneliness in common. One is a very intelligent man, George, who travels with and looks after a powerfully strong yet gentle man named Lennie, who has the mental age of a child. Another character, Crooks, keeps himself to himself as he is a black man and believes that no white man should interact with him. Candy, an elderly man, which I shall discuss and show his despair of when he looses his dog. Curley’s wife seeks the attention of the men on the ranch, as her husband isn’t giving her any consideration. Loneliness affects several characters in the novel and at one point or another are dreaming of a changed life.
The first character I’m going to speak about is George. George looks after a mentally disabled man named Lennie. They both travel together but he constantly says he could do better without Lennie, he can be spiteful to him but this is due to frustration.
"Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.”
George can never stay at a job for long, as Lennie gets them into terrible trouble and they have to leave immediately. George feels …show more content…
This involves these soft items and the dream for his/George's farm. He believes, at the farm he will not have to deal with all the problems that he has now. Lennie became unrealistic in many ways because of both his condition and his loneliness. At the end of the story Lennie forgets to listen to what George has said to him and accidently kills the puppy. Lennie knows he’s done wrong but didn’t mean it. He then is comforted by Curley’s wife and forgets what George has said again. Curley’s wife leads Lennie to touching her hair and accidently chocking her to
Within this essay, I am going to have a discussion about some very different characters in John Steinbeck’s,” Of Mice and Men”. Each character is very different but all appear to have loneliness in common. One is a very intelligent man, George, who travels with and looks after a powerfully strong yet gentle man named Lennie, who has the mental age of a child. Another character, Crooks, keeps himself to himself as he is a black man and believes that no white man should interact with him. Candy, an elderly man, which I shall discuss and show his despair of when he looses his dog. Curley’s wife seeks the attention of the men on the ranch, as her husband isn’t giving her any consideration. Loneliness affects several characters in the novel and at one point or another are dreaming of a changed life.
The first character I’m going to speak about is George. George looks after a mentally disabled man named Lennie. They both travel together but he constantly says he could do better without Lennie, he can be spiteful to him but this is due to frustration.
"Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.”
George can never stay at a job for long, as Lennie gets them into terrible trouble and they have to leave immediately. George feels …show more content…
This involves these soft items and the dream for his/George's farm. He believes, at the farm he will not have to deal with all the problems that he has now. Lennie became unrealistic in many ways because of both his condition and his loneliness. At the end of the story Lennie forgets to listen to what George has said to him and accidently kills the puppy. Lennie knows he’s done wrong but didn’t mean it. He then is comforted by Curley’s wife and forgets what George has said again. Curley’s wife leads Lennie to touching her hair and accidently chocking her to