Loneliness “ I get lonely,” she said. “ You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How’d you like not to talk to anybody”(Steinbeck Pg 89)? Curley’s wife becomes lonely because she is not allowed to talk to anyone but, Curley doesn’t have much time for her. Loneliness is the quality of being unfrequented and remote; isolation. Various characters in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men are lonely due to discrimination, powerlessness, and weakness. Discrimination is shown all throughout this story. Crooks is a black, stable buck. Most of the time he is lonely because his race is considered the lower race, and everyone else wants no part of him because of that. While the men went into town, Lennie is left behind. He goes into the barn to play with his puppy and stumbles into Crook’s room. Crooks said sharply,” You got no right to come in my room. This heres my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (Steinbeck Pg 68). Because he is black, he is not allowed to live in the bunkhouse with everyone else, eat with …show more content…
Lennie lacks power, and because of that, he is treated less than everyone else. He cannot comprehend as much and as fast as everyone else, so they automatically already have power over him. George and Lennie are sitting around a fire, eating their dinner, and talking about how they will get a coupla acres and tend them rabbits. George motioned with his spoon again, “ Look, Lennie. I want you to look around here. You can remember this place, can’t you? The ranch is about a quarter mile up that way. Just follow the river” (Steinbeck 15). George has so much power over Lennie that Lennie knows it and he knows that it is best to listen to him because he does what lennie cannot. He can think farther, have a plan, and have everything organized together. He has to give George that, because he can’t even remember where they going to work, let alone how to plan something
In the novel, Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck used George and Lennie's relationship and the theme of hope to point out the loneliness in the novel. The novel starts off and is set in Soledad which means lonely. At the beginning they get a job working on a farm together. Lennie is a little retarded and has great physical strength that isn't too controllable. As they work from ranch to ranch, Lennie relies on George for guidance and help. Rather than wasting their earnings, they try to save it in the hope of buying a place of their own. While working at one ranch they meet a worker named Candy who tries to help them financially. Before their dream can be fulfilled, Lennie kills the wife of the boss's son. As the novel concludes George must kill Lennie for his own benefit. Later Lennie goes into town and abandons his dream by spending his money.
Since Lennie's mind works like a child's, due to his handicap, the other men did not treat him as an equal. Ther...
What is loneliness? Loneliness is an intricate and usually emotional reaction to isolation or absence of companionship. In the book ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck many characters such as Crooks and Curley’s Wife have experienced loneliness. Crooks is lonely because he is black. Curley’s wife is lonely due to being the only female at the ranch and having no one to converse with.
The great and famous author john Steinbeck once said, “All great and precious things are lonely.” In the Steinbeck book Of Mice and Men, many of the characters show their loneliness in many different ways. Candy, Curley's wife, and Crooks all show perfect examples of how they are lonely. The characters in of mice and men show that loneliness is a problem that must be overcome in order to live a happy, fulfilled life.. all three of these characters know what is feels like to be lonely.
“‘A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is… I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick,” (Steinbeck 73). In this statement, Crooks, a character in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, divulges what effect loneliness can have on a human being. In the novel, the two main characters escape to a ranch where they must face the conflict that seems to follow them. Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression, Steinbeck brilliantly portrays the loneliness and suspicion that was common during the time. Much like in everyday life, we can see the way in which loneliness drives people to become isolated, crave companionship, and refuse to express emotion.
Mother Teresa has once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company or the quality of being unfrequented and remote. This quote relates to the theme of loneliness as portrayed by the characters in Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men. Although some view George and Lennie as victims of loneliness, Steinbeck suggests that they are Crooks and Curley’s wife because they both suffer from isolation.
He is trying to say a man had to work all day just to get a meal in there belly, especially for a black person who works twice as hard for half the pay. Crooks is a black man, he earns his keep at the farm. He lives with the animals in the barn.”You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me” (68).“I don’t know what you’re doin’ in the barn anyways” (68). He has a crooked back from getting kicked by a horse. “Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him”(20). John is trying to say that people get treated differently because of the color of a person’s
Everyone feels lonely at some point in their life. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, many characters are written as to feel loneliness. Curley’s wife acts flirtatious and misunderstood. Curley’s wife is flirtatious and misunderstood which correlates with the book’s theme, loneliness.
George not only controlled Lennie but he also looked out for him and he wanted him to be happy. An example of this is how he constantly reminds Lennie of their dream, to work on their own farm, much like the dreams of other migrant workers. “Sure, we’d have a little house an’ a room to ourself, little fat iron stove an’ in the winter we’d keep a fire goin’ in it. It ain’t enough land so we’d have to work too hard. Maybe six, seven hours a day. An’ when we put in a crop, why, we’d be there to take the crop up. We’d know what come of our planting.” (Pg. 58) George had taken care of Lennie, every step of the way, just like his Aunt Clara told him to. “He ain’t much of a talker, is he? No he ain’t but sure is a hell of a good worker.”(Pg. 21-22) George even went as far as talking for Lennie to get him a job at the ranch, something not many workers would have done for eachother. Even though George acted like ...
In his novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck depicts the essential loneliness of California ranch life in the 1930s. He illustrates how people are driven to find companionship. There were so many moments of loneliness and sadness throughout the novel, including many deaths. Following the deaths, they were very unexpected making the novel more intense and latch onto it more.
Loneliness is the sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned. John Steinbeck brought up the theme of loneliness in many characters in Of Mice and Men. Crooks, Curley?s wife, and Candy expressed the theme of loneliness in many different forms throughout the story. Early in the novella George said, life working as ranch hands is about the loneliness of living, for these people finding friendship seems to be impossible. Crooks expressed feelings of loneliness throughout Of Mice and Men.
Loneliness is the feeling of isolation and no hope or dreams in your life-which is what Steinbeck achieves by portraying this theme effectively through key fictional characters in Of Mice and Men.
In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck depicts the theme of loneliness throughout the novel. Loneliness affects Curley’s wife’s actions and choices throughout the novel. Curley’s wife is treated as less powerful because of her gender, her dreams got crushed and her actions and choices lead back to her unhappy marriage. John Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to illustrate a unique type of loneliness. Curley’s wife’s adversities are caused because of her gender, which leads her to act in a flirtatious manner.
Is there a level of understanding that characters have in the development of this story. The author John Steinbeck was born in February 27, 1902 in the Salinas Valley. He was the only boy of four children. He had a middle class family that lived in a small community. The Salinas Valley would later be the location of many of the short stories and books he published. Both of his parents believed in showing their children culture and often went to San Francisco to see theatre. His family also had a lot of options of books to read at home. Steinbeck went to Stanford University there he majored in English, but he didn’t get a degree. Steinbeck was wedded three times in his life the last time was to a woman named Elaine Scott and that lasted until the death of Steinbeck. He died in 1968. The common emotion felt by most of the characters in Of Mice and Men is loneliness. Being lonely is something none of the men wants to happen and the men being lonely are extremely symbolic. The men don’t want to be by themselves. Neither do they want to be left behind by society. Steinbeck wanted to show how life was during the Great Depression. Steinbeck showed how people remained affected by the misery and what people had to do to make it through the tough times. He showed how people had to make decisions not just for themselves but for the well-being of others.
The world is filled with things that people try to ignore: race, gender, and disabilities. These are difficult to look past. In the book, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck contrasts the difference between those with mental disabilities and those of sound mind through Lennie’s relationships with Crooks and George, George’s attitude toward Lennie, and Lennie’s simplistic outlook.