Of Mice And Men Foreshadowing Essay

“I seen guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They wantin’ to fight all the time.”(Steinbeck, 41). In the novel “Of Mice and Men” By John Steinbeck, we learn about George Milton and his Companion Lennie Small they are two men traveling town to town looking for work in the 1930s Great Depression. Until they end up at a ranch up in soledad that is really mean and cruel and this rance splits these two apart forever. A major theme in the novel is when someone is alone their hopes and dreams die and a person grows bitter and mean because life didn’t go the way they wanted it to go. The author uses symbolism and foreshadowing to thoroughly show the theme by making suspense and an emotional connection to the characters and their dreams. Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show that loneliness is not good for someone it is bad to not have fun, or talk to anyone. “ A guy needs somebody--to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely an’ gets sick.” (Steinbeck, Pg. 73)This is when crooks explains what is like to be lonely to not have someone to talk to and
In the story george always plays solitaire which is a one person game “sol” in spanish means alone and they go to soledad which means isolation. Could we assume that george was going to be alone in the end and he wouldn’t have someone to be with at the end. “George cut the cards again and put out a solitaire lay, slowly and deliberately.” This evidence connects to my theme because it shows how he is slowly going to be lonely in the end also he will have no one to be by his side and he will not get his dream where there is equality and