Loneliness in of Mice and MenEssay Preview: Loneliness in of Mice and MenReport this essayLoneliness is a feeling that many people have had to deal no matter who they are. A person does not have to be alone to feel lonely. Most people who are lonely have people
around them who care about them, but they do not feel like they do. Of Mice and Men hasvery good examples of loneliness. The best examples are Curley’s wife and Crooks becausethey are both physically and mentally lonely. One other example of loneliness is Lennie and how his disability makes him mentally lonely. Many people in Of Mice and Men are lonely whether they show it or not, so the main theme of, Of Mice and Men was loneliness.
The person that shows their loneliness the most in this novella is Curley’s Wife. Shetries to do everything she can to make friends with any of the guys even if that means she hasto act like a little bit of a “tart”. She eventually gets to talk to Lennie all alone in the barn and she explains her story of how lonely she really is. Her mom kept stopping her from getting a good job so she married Curley to get out of her mothers house. Even though she did not
love him she acted like she did and moved in with him. With him not loving her and her not loving him her house was lonely for her and whenever she tried to talk to the guys they
would always say something smart or just ignore her. Though when she got Lennie aloneshe spilled everything and tried to be friends with him and by doing this Lennie got a little to aggressive and accidentally killed her. Therefore her loneliness killed her.
The next person in the novella that shows their loneliness the most is Crooks. Even though he does not show it too much he really showed it when Lennie came into the barn
and started talking to him. He explained how when he grew up how him and his familywere close, but now they are separated. Also, he asks Lennie how he would feel if Georgenever came back trying to make him feel the pain he has. Lennie didn’t understand and gotmad so crooks stopped trying to explain. Another reason Crooks felt lonely is because thetime setting of this book is during the great depression and he is a black man so he has tosleep in the barn and he is allowed to do nothing with the white men. He’s also the onlyblack guy on the ranch in Soledad, so he really is all alone.One other person who may feel alone in this novella is Lennie. He does not show it much, but there are some points when it may show through. Like whenever George got
dive into John of the Living Dead’s house and was in a car and was thinking, “I need her, but I don´t know how I will handle it.
Lena did the thing that was great—she didn’t even tell me. That is when I started feeling sick, because I knew she was dead. It was because we were friends that we weren’t friends.
There was only one other person with her, and that was her younger sister, a young lady named Mary Elizabeth, who is only 18 years old with no father, and she died when I was 20, so this is how that would go. To that point in her life, she had a normal life. That is how she got up again and told me I’d do the best I could. That was the idea for the story with her but it did not work. I wanted to tell a strong good story and it was a good story. It would be the opposite of that. I needed the story to be strong and I wanted the story to be believable.
The story told by Lennie is a story that is true. It is an unrepentant honest tale that is told in the dark.
This is a book that I hope will be used in a number of venues in my life in a way that is different from the one I have currently. It´s always interesting. I want it to be that way.
dive into John of the Living Dead’s house and was in a car and was thinking, “I need her, but I don´t know how I will handle it.
Lena did the thing that was great—she didn’t even tell me. That is when I started feeling sick, because I knew she was dead. It was because we were friends that we weren’t friends.
There was only one other person with her, and that was her younger sister, a young lady named Mary Elizabeth, who is only 18 years old with no father, and she died when I was 20, so this is how that would go. To that point in her life, she had a normal life. That is how she got up again and told me I’d do the best I could. That was the idea for the story with her but it did not work. I wanted to tell a strong good story and it was a good story. It would be the opposite of that. I needed the story to be strong and I wanted the story to be believable.
The story told by Lennie is a story that is true. It is an unrepentant honest tale that is told in the dark.
This is a book that I hope will be used in a number of venues in my life in a way that is different from the one I have currently. It´s always interesting. I want it to be that way.