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Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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The famous author Jules Verne wrote in his novel The Secret of the Island, “Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.” Solitude is a kind of feeling that could lead to damaging consequences. Author John Steinbeck also expresses the idea of loneliness in his novella Of Mice and Men. People like to communicate with others and develop friendships while some of them live in solitude and have nobody staying with them. Under people’s alienation and misunderstandings, some people will still try to make friends, but because of their inappropriate behaviors, they usually fail. Others will hide their weaknesses against discrimination and pretend to be strong. Loneliness is a horrible feeling that can make people lose their …show more content…

For example, when Crooks tells her to leave the barn quickly, “Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”(81). She is really afraid of being isolated, and when people are doing that, she loses her mind and doesn’t think about the consequences of threatening Crooks. Loneliness makes a teenage girl so dreadful and saying such terrifying words. However, there is a reason for why she would become like this; “‘I never got that letter,’ she said. ‘I always thought my ol’ lady stole it. Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere or make something of myself, an’ where they stole your letters. I ast her if she stole it, too, an’ she says no. So I married Curley. Met him out to the Riverside Dance Palace that same night’”(88). Isolation and loneliness makes her doubt at everything and not trust anyone. Nobody listens to her talking about the unpleasant life, so she can only keep these negative emotions to herself. When she finally finds someone that she can talk to, she has a great emotional outburst, and that leads to the tragic ending of her life. Being alienated and living in loneliness does not only cause people losing their mind, but it also makes people sensitive and

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