Of Mice And Men Loneliness And Loneliness

Of Mice and Men starts off as a happy and optimistic story that soon turns drury and depressing; it has multiple cases of isolation and loneliness that forces characters into doing things they didn’t want to happen. Before Loneliness gets introduced in the story, Chapter 1 has a happy atmosphere. Steinbeck goes into great detail about the scenery and emotions that are given off from this chapter. “On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees-willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool”(1). We are introduced to the two main characters, George and Lennie. He also gives a good description of what George and Lennie’s friendship is like. “Then he replaced his hat, pushed himself back from the river, drew up his knees and embraced them. Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his knees,

“ Lennie was starting to become a threat to everyone on the ranch. Lennie just does not know his own strength, and also does not have the brains to know what he is doing. “He was so little, said Lennie. I was jus’ playin’ with him...an’ he made like he’s gonna bite me...an’ I made like I was gonna smack him...an’...an’ I done it. An’ then he was dead.”(87). He killed a puppy then he killed Lennie’s wife and both of them were on accident. The only choice Lennie had was to kill him. “The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again. Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand, and he lay without