Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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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

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