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Of Mice And Men Loneliness Character Analysis

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The Desolate Life of Three Characters In many novels, loneliness isn’t seen as a major situation throughout the plot. The isolation among the characters is chosen by different ideas. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the novella portrays a story of two young men, George and Lennie who seek for a new job in Soledad, California. As the story progresses, they encounter several characters that either cause inconveniences or benefit to their stay. The old swamper with no hand named Candy was the first person to meet the two new workers and he was seen as a person that they could trust. George and Lennie didn’t see Crooks, an African American with a crooked back, as a huge problem, but the two men viewed Curley’s wife as a person to avoid. Although the three characters are depicted with these labels, they all faced the tragedy of alienation. Throughout the novella, John Steinbeck creates characterization and dialogue that delineate lonely characters due to both social barriers and personal choice. Even though Crooks and Curley’s wife are the focal points of loneliness and isolation in Of Mice and Men, Candy the swamper is inferred to be a lonesome individual who chooses to be by himself in certain situations. In the second chapter when he first met George and Lennie, Candy claimed that he had his dog since it was a puppy and they grew up tending sheep together. From the past activities that the two have experienced jointly, they developed a powerful and passionate
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