Of Mice and Men Theme Essay Essay #1 Loneliness is an empty feeling that no one likes to have. In the novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses loneliness as one of the biggest and main themes. Steinbeck uses loneliness to illustrate how people are driven to find companionship. George and Lennie are the main characters of this novel, as well as, “Best friends” who travel together to different ranches to find work and save up enough money to buy the house on the “Fatta the Lan’”. George practically
it can affect people. Following on, in this essay I will be writing about: Lennie; Crooks and Curley’s Wife. In my opinion, Steinbeck portrays Lennie as a slow and a dull minded person (in juxtaposition to George). However he also shows him to be really innocent and
missionary Albert Schweitzer once said, “We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. One of the main themes of the book Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is loneliness. In my essay I will describe how the characters, Crooks, Curley’s wife, and Candy are all impacted by loneliness. “A guy gets too lonely and he gets sick.” (p73). This is just one of the many ways that Crooks explains loneliness in the book Of Mice and Men. Crooks is a very lonely man because he is black. Therefore
Curley's Wife was discriminated against in many parts of the novella. John Steinbeck describes Curley's Wife as being “Heavily made up” this could insinuate Curley's Wife is concealing her true identity with her makeup, she covers up the fact that she's lonely and that her life is unfulfilled by wearing a lot of makeup and practically putting on an act. Her shoes were described as being decorated with “little bouquets of red ostrich feathers”. The word “ostrich” is symbolic to Curley's Wife
the novel Of Mice and Men, the friends George and Lennie go to the ranch in Soledad after an incident in the town of Weed. They work at the new ranch to earn enough money to buy a ranch of their own. At the new ranch a nameless woman conveyed as Curley’s wife has a conversation with Lennie. As she begins to get flirtatious with Lennie and him being mentally not prepared to handle a situation like that, he ends up accidentally killing her because he shouldn’t have been conversing with her in the first