Lonliness and Isolation in 'Of Mice and Men'
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- Created on: 14-03-13 20:16
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- Lonliness and Isolation
- George is lonely because he has to look after Lennie who holds him back
- "God a'mighty, f I was alone I could live so easy"
- "Why, I could stay in a cat house all night"
- "You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get"
- Lennie can't function without George, and no one understands his mental condition
- " 'George gonna come back' Lennie reassured himself in a frightened voice"
- "He's jes' like a kid, ain't he?"
- Curleys Wife is the only woman there, seen as '********'
- sympathy before death "Lennie had broken her neck"
- "I get awful lonely"
- Crooks isolated through colour, has no one to talk to, protects his space but longs for a friend
- "You got no right to come in my room"
- "A guy needs somebody to be near him"
- "S'pose you didn't have nobody" - tries to make Lennie understand
- Candy is isolated especially after his dog dies, oldest member of ranch, very few people understand him
- "I ought to have shot that dog myself, George. Ishouldn't ought to have let no stranger shoot my dog."
- "Candy lay rigidly on his bed staring at the ceiling"
- "Then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silent"
- George is lonely because he has to look after Lennie who holds him back
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