Of+Mice+and+Men



"It is lonliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs." -Eric Hoffer. this uote implies that lonliness has the largest presence amoung everyone, not just people. In the book, "Of Mice and Men", by John Steinbeck, two characters, George and Lennie, embark on a jornay to a better future, as Lennie always said, living off of the fat of the land.

But along their journay, they meet many people who had dreams of living on a farm, or being with family, or even being a movie star. But those dreams, as they all soon realized, would remain as dreams. One of these people's name is Crooks. He is a slave and works as a stable buck on the ranch. One night, Lennie comes to his room and talks with Crooks, attempting to befriend him. Crooks, althugh feeling lonely on the inside, complains about Leniie coming, but ends up talking to Lennie. Crooks then begins to slowly ease into Lennie, combining his own situation with Lennie's. "You can see now, you got George. You know he's going to come back. Supose you didn't have nobody? How would you like that?" He is talking about how LEnnie always has George, and Crooks never has anyone.

Another person that George and Lennie had encountered to be quite lonely was Curley's Wife. Curley's Wife was shown to be very lonely, for she was always found roaming around the ranch trying to find someone she could talk to. She eventually found herself talking to Lennie alone in the barn. "Well, George says you getme in trouble."

"Aw nuts, what kinda harm am I doing? Seems like ain't none of them cares how I gotta live." This scene indicates that she has almost no control of her own life, and Curley forces her to stay in the house, all day, every day. She contimplated on what would have been like if she was a movie star. But she makes excuses as to why she never became one.

The final person that they find being lonely throughout the book, is Candy. Candy is the "swamper" of the ranch, and a few years earlier, his right hand was cut off, and his dream is to live on the same farm George and Lennie are going to buy, and Candy wants to be a part of that dream, for his injury made him nearly useless on the ranch. "When they can me, I wish somebody would shoot me." Candy's lack of usefulness and the fact that his dog was put down makes him very depressed when George and Lennie's dream is destroyed by the simple death of Curley's Wife.

Although these people's dreams were cut short, they still continued to tell themselves that their dreams would come true. This, eventually, also became the fate of Geirge and Lennie, but mostly George.