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Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Of Mice and Men: Loneliness of Their Lives There are times in life when people everywhere feel lonely. Everyone has had to experience that in life just like the characters in the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. Being lonely is defined as the state of being alone. Many characters in this novel are described as ether being left/abandoned or loosing everyone and everything they had from the cause of an accident. The characters that have or are facing the state of loneliness would be Crooks, Candy, Crooks, whom got this name form his crooked back, is considered as one of the characters whom is lonely because he works and lives on a ranch by himself. He lives by himself because others discriminated him fro him being the only black …show more content…

Has has spent the best years of his life working on a ranch that isn’t even his only to end up having his hand cut off and have very little money to survive with. It seems very dressing for him also that he’s all alone. All he has are the other workers at the ranch but even then they communicate. Candy has always had a very had time standing up others such as his pet (whom he might have to shoot) even if they do good and he has had a harder time standing up for himself. When Candy realizes that his dog is getting older and weaker and won’t be a good sheepherder anymore he starts t think that the boss is going to want to get rid of him. Candy eventually had the guts to become George and Lennie’s friend. When eh ends up knowing the “George and Lennie Dream” he ends up turning it into “George Lennie’s, and Candy’s Dream”. Well Candy has really never had anyone to call his own. He always had this dog ever since the dog was a small pup. Over the years he has gotten very attached to it. When ever anyone talks about shooting his pet dog, that he ha raised for so many years, he gets extremely upset and don’t even want to continue with the topic. So, Candy is a character that does show loneliness in life in to which he loose the only thing he has, his best friend, the

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(59). Candy knows he will get fired because he is not much use anymore, with only one hand, along with him getting old, so he says he just wishes someone would shoot him so he does not have to go through any more suffering. Candy has no family anymore and his dog was just shot, he expresses a large amount of despair with his

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As an aging and disabled worker, Candy is isolated both physically and emotionally. He is segregated from the other ranch-hands due to his age and his inability to perform physically demanding tasks such as harvesting or farming. Candy's isolation is further amplified by his lack of companionship. His only companion is his old dog, whose death emboldens his loneliness. Candy's longing for connection and his eagerness to join George and Lennie in their dream of owning a piece of land underscores his desperate need for human connection and a sense of belonging.

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Loneliness Loneliness. . . a feeling we have all experienced in some way. The theme however, of Of Mice And Men from beginning to end by Steinbeck is developed this way through the choices George and Lennie make throughout the book. At the beginning in chapter one, we see our first example of loneliness where george explains that his life would be much better without Lennie, then Lennie says “If you don’ want me i can go off in the hills an’ find a cave, i can go any time”(Steinbeck 12).

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They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. ”(Pg, 60) The death of Candy’s dog definitively the biggest reason why Candy is lonely, losing your best friend can relate to losing a family member, a piece that makes up who you are. Candy’s dog wasn’t useful to the Boss nor the rest of the guys on the ranch making the decision to put him down, giving, Candy a big scare.

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Now, he has friendships that will keep him safe and cares more about keeping them than keeping his job. Loneliness was a big issue with Candy, but because of this idea of a new and better place with Lennie and George. With them, he now has courage and is no longer

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