Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

George’s outlook on life is bitter and he harbors deep suspicion towards other people due to his feelings of loneliness and feelings of alienation. When George and Lennie first arrive at the ranch’s bunkhouse, the boss conducts an impromptu “interview. Candy,the swamper at the ranch, led the boss into the bunkhouse,and waited outside. George display’s his suspicion towards Candy by stating that he doesn’t appreciate people “poking” their “big ears into” their “business(Steinbeck 24). Later Curley,the son of the boss,comes into the bunkhouse a while later after the boss left. Curley looks at Lennie with a “glance” that was “at once calculating and pugnacious(Steinbeck 25).Curley’s actions give George more mistrust of the people in the ranch.

Lennie had killed Curley’s wife and Lennie ran to the brush. Later Candy finds the body and initially only alerts George.Candy knows that the dream is no longer viable and knows that they can’t “get that little place(...)an’ live nice.”George thinks,”[he] knowed from the very first” that the dream was too good to come true(Steinbeck 107). When the other men find out about the killing of Curley’s wife,they assemble a lynch mob very much like the one assembled at Weed. George had already run ahead of the mob,and before he went after Lennie,he stole Carlson’s Luger. In the brush,George mesmerizes Lennie with the dream and shoots Lennie in the back of the head much like how Candy’s dog was shot. George later “looks at his right hand that held the gun(Steinbeck 107).” George’s short lived confidence and hope were extinguished;causing his outlook to become morose. George also became more bitter about the intentions of people when he realized that Candy only really cared about the dream,and the fact that he had to kill his companion Lennie. Loneliness now enveloped him because the dream not only allowed for a better financial opportunity and life,it would have allowed him to be connected with people,but now he was even more