Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Friendship is one of the most precious gifts of life. Friendship is both good and bad. It makes life a sweet and pleasant experience, but may also have some disagreements and arguments. Steinbeck shows both friendship and loneliness in the novel Of Mice and Men suggesting that friendship does not only have to do with agreeing and getting along. Steinbeck also shows many examples of loneliness throughout the text, whereas almost every character, except for George and Lennie, are without a friend and are alone. John Steinbeck describes the life of a man and his best friend who has the mentality of a child. Their friendship is very strong. Every time George and Lennie do a job together, Lennie always end up messing up and they are forced to leave. But they hope to get to fulfill their dream, to get a place and call it their own. Lennie and George are always arguing because of Lennie’s disability to understand different rules orconsequences. “Lennie hesitated, backed away, looked wildly at the brush line as though he contemplated running for his freedom. George said coldly, ‘You gonna give me that mouse or do I have to sock you?’” (Steinbeck 70). Through the many

Through the novel, she is mostly by herself and doesn’t appear too much in the story, but when she does appear she is always trying to find someone to talk to because of her 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 nobody?’” (Steinbeck 87). This quote shows that she spends all her time alone, in her house as the men work out in the fields. She is also not allowed to talk to anyone but her husband because her husband will get jealous and try to start a fight. Curley spends all of this time in the fields, so she feels like she is living alone all her life. This forces her to talk to anybody she finds, which shows why she is so