Loneliness can be one of life’s greatest motivators. In the film McCabe and Mrs. Miller nearly every action taken by McCabe is to avoid this feeling alienation and loneliness. McCabe is easily the most fearful of every protagonist in the New Hollywood era. He is a man so filled with fear of alienation that he builds his own community to avoid it and saddest of all makes himself the dealer in poker to avoid missing out on a single hand. McCabe is similar to the protagonists in Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider because of he is in the middle of a society without one. He never denies claims of him murdering a man just so others will at least think of him as the society in Bonnie and Clyde thought about them. But he also is similar to Benjamin because