Lonliness - Of Mice and Men
Loneliness - Of Mice and Men
- Created by: Charlotte
- Created on: 28-04-13 10:19
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- Lonliness
- Everyone on the ranch is lonely
- George says ranchers are the "loneliest guys in the world"
- It's unusual for the ranchers to travel together like George and Lennie
- Crooks, the stable hand, lives separately from the others because he's black
- He says "a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick".
- Crooks is used to being lonely on the ranch
- He says "a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick".
- Curley's lonely even though he's married.
- The only time we see him with his wife is when she's dead
- Curley's wife gets "awful lonely" because she's supposed in the house "alla time"
- The only time we see him with his wife is when she's dead
- KEY QUOTE: SLIM: "Maybe ever'body in the whole world is scared of each other"
- George says ranchers are the "loneliest guys in the world"
- Looking for companionship can end badly
- When anyone tries to find friendship it ends in disaster
- George and Lennie give each other companionship
- George still ends up just like the other ranchers. At the end of the novel he is lonely and has no dreams
- Curley's wife tries to find companionship by flirting with the ranchers
- The men on the ranch seem uncomfortable and don't flirt back
- It's her flirting that leads to Lennie's death
- Animals provide a temporary solution to the problem of loneliness but it doesn't last
- Lennie kills all the animals he gets, like the mouse and the puppy
- Candy has his dog until Carlson shoots it
- Lennie kills all the animals he gets, like the mouse and the puppy
- When anyone tries to find friendship it ends in disaster
- Everyone on the ranch is lonely
- George still ends up just like the other ranchers. At the end of the novel he is lonely and has no dreams
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