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How Is Loneliness Reflected In Of Mice And Men

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Mayte Rodriguez

January - 25 - 2016

Loneliness is reflected in Of Mice and Men because George , Lennie , Candy and Curleys’s wife don 't want to be feel alone .

also they don 't want to be left behind by other people . The characters reflect loneliness by

emotional moments ,as to who they are as a person and their character identity . Discrimination

and verbal approach leads into the big scenario at the end . of Mice and Men is a novel written

by John Steinbeck , loneliness identifies many actions of who the character is as a person in

the book . Men are eager to look for jobs all around , it is very hard to find something stable and

a stable community as well , these men have to …show more content…

Loneliness in characters is shown by the point of view of their sexism , race , and their

age meaning they are brought down or seen lower than others by who they are .

An example is when at the beginning of the book George meets Candy , and Candy

introduces him to the “ black guy “ , in the book they refer to Crooks’s as the black guy .

Around the 1930’s black people were seen lower than , compared to white people . Black

people weren 't allowed to conversate with white people . This meant that crooks’s didn 't have

any friends around him he was isolated from the rest , he was given his own bunk in a

separated nigger room .

“ They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell

you, you all of you stink for me” Crooks’s is being exposed to race discrimination because

his skin color is different from the rest , but it 's not like they think different or have some type of

different brain

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