His retardation sometimes causes others at the ranch to shun him; even to the point of thinking he is "cuckoo." Since Lennie cannot think as quickly as the other men, he is often set aside and isolated from them. He is unable to take an active part in conversations because George, Lennie's best friend and travelling companion, is the only one who can understand him. Lennie is frequently off in his own dream world and is constantly preoccupied with dreams of the farm which he and George someday hope to buy. .’ “An’ have rabbits.” ‘As a result, Lennie is unable to face reality at times, a fact which puts him even more out of touch with the real world and with other workers.
The Bitter Truth Many of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men dream of a better life. These dreams are supposed to help them deal with their difficult environments. Unfortunately, John Steinbeck’s world is a tough and inhospitable place where dreams do not come true. His story has dreamers and strugglers, with both external belief, where dreams seem to be plausible and a contradicting internal confinement, where dreams generally fade into vanity. Once dreams are abandoned, happiness is impossible to achieve, leaving a person trapped in a cycle of misery.
The title "Of Mice and Men". Firstly Steinbeck portrays Curley's wife as a lonely character. Newly married and in a strange place, she is forbidden by Curley to talk to anyone but him. To counter this, she constantly approaches the ranch hands on the excuse of looking for Curley. The only result is that the men regard her as a "slut", and Curley becomes even more intensely jealous.
Though the pet was once a great sheepherder, it was put out to pasture once it stopped being productive. Candy realizes that his fate is to be put on the roadside as soon as he’s no longer useful; on the ranch, he won’t be treated any differently than his dog. Worse than the dog parallel, though, is that Candy (unlike his dog) is emotionally broken by this whole affair. He can’t bring himself to shoot his pet himself, and we suspect this is going to be the same fear and reticence that keep him from making anything more of his life. Candy can’t stand up for his pet because Candy can’t stand up for himself.
Name Miss Connell English 1 (H) Due Date Loneliness in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men suggests that loneliness and isolation drive different social outsiders together. George is the first character in the novel to suggest that the loneliness itinerant ranch hands naturally face leads them to seek companionship. When he and Lennie settle in for the night before going to the Tyler Ranch, he says to Lennie, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.
But, even as the relationship of George and Lennie is beautiful and rare, it is also heartbreaking, for the contrast between the pair’s aspirations and the final result of their struggle sharply illustrates the tragedy of Naturalism. The extraordinary nature of the relationship between George and Lennie eludes conventionality in that not only does the pair keep each other alive, but their relationship blazes defiance towards the forces of Naturalism. Naturalistic thought depicts a cruel force dictating the actions of humans, and nowhere does this idea seem more apparent than in the lonely lives of the farmhands depicted in Of Mice and Men. The song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” exhibits this isolation: “I walk a lonely road / the only one that I have ever known / ... I walk alone.” As sung in this Green Day classic, the men on the farm have known only solitude and hardship due to their inability to escape Naturalism’s clutches.
After that, Frankie could see her pain and agony, and how she truly no longer wanted to go on in life. What would be the point of going on, after aspiring from white trash, rising to the highest level of boxing that she possibly could have. Her life crashed down and she had no hope of ever moving again, only being supported by a breathing machine and feeding tube. The doctors already cut off one leg, and probably would remove more limbs as time went on. None of her family cared about her, only about signing over her money in a will and could care less if she lived or died.
Candy is lonely because of his old age although it is somewhat helped by the fact he has a dog but as we know, he is left high and dry after the residents of the bunkhouse choose to eradicate it for it was in pain and also smelling. Curleys wife throughout is negatively portrayed to the reader by the workers on the ranch and therefore is not left with anyone on her side, ultimately, making her lonely despite having a husband. The fact that Lennie is so incapable of getting along with people who he doesn’t already know well, this leaves him almost completely reliable on George in the book. Last but not least, Crooks is left without companionship on the ranch for various reasons. In the novel, the ranch is a huge symbolism of loneliness.
In 'of Mice and Men', Steinbeck presents George as an extremely lonely character. George is lonely because he is constantly attached to Lenny and cannot leave him as he is completely dependant on George, due to the fact that he is mentally disabled. This also means that George has no other friends in case Lenny tells them something about their past lives by mistake. Despite this, when George complains about what having to take care of Lenny does not allow him to do, such as, “ Get a gallon of whisky, or set in a pool room and play cards or shoot pool”, and Lenny offers to leave him alone and 'go off in the hills and find a cave' to live in, George replies, "No—look! I was jus' foolin', Lennie.
Likewise, while in the hotel when Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy are talking Tom states, “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife,” (pg. 137). Daisy who was handed everything in life never knew what it was like to be truly happy, so she set out to fulfill that dream. Everyone tries to achieve the American dream but never releases it’s not worth