Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

For Lennie’s archetype, his character represents innocence. In the story, Lennie is always in need to pet some kind of animal. His want of constant comfort from an animal is a childish quality for a grown man to have. This childish quality makes Lennie’s character have the innocence of a child no older than eight years old.

In the story Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the author emphasizes a main character, Lennie, as unworldly and ignorant. Throughout the book Lennie gives the impression through his unobservant innocent acts as a childlike character. For example, Lennie endeavors to create friendships as though a child and does not know how to make friends in the manner of an adult. When Lennie tries to make friends with Crooks, Steinbeck describes Lennie smiling at Crooks in attempting to be friends.

The Story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about these two friends that live in California and they go on experiences together and throughout the book they go on ups and downs. John Steinbeck 's makes Lennie very strong, but not very wise in the book. In the book of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are two farm boys searching for the American dream and looking for their perfect ranch. Lennie is not the brightest in the pack meaning that he’s not very smart, but he has a soft charisma and he actually likes soft things too. George doesn’t really have confidence in Lennie for instance on the ranch, George wouldn’t let Lennie talk because George didn’t want Lennie to miss getting the opportunity.

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, shows us the importance of friendship, loyalty, and dream chasing. John Steinbeck shows this through the life of George and Lennie and all their trials and tribulations they faced in their life. In the book “Of Mice and Men”, we see the bond George and Lennie have and the goal they share that they try to reach together. George constantly complains about the hassle he has to put up with because of Lenny, the most important character.

Lennie’s puppy symbolizes the power the strong have over the weak. On multiple occasions Lennie kills creatures smaller than him, this is because he has more strength than them. However others have more mental strength than Lennie. Specifically, Crooks can easily upset and take control over Lennie by bringing up George, this is because Crooks is more intelligent than Lennie and was able to figure out his weak spot. By giving Lennie a lack of intelligence Steinbeck develops the theme that the more strength a person has the more power they have over others.

Throughout the novella, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck's use of motif reveals the theme, isolation can create loneliness and pain. Crooks and Lennie were in Crook's room and Candy was looking for Lennie. Crooks said IRRITIABLY, "You can come in if you want." (Steinbeck 74). The motif, Crooks likes to be alone, helps support the theme, isolation can create loneliness and pain, because when Candy appears in the doorframe of Crooks room he gets very irritated and tense.

In the novel Of Mice and Men, Lennie is a complex character who elicits both sympathy and frustration due to his lack of understanding. Lennie's actions, though unintentional, have serious consequences, and the question whether his punishment was fair has been debated since the book was released. Despite Lennie's innocence and mental disability, his punishment in Of Mice and Men was not fair. Lennie's actions were a result of his mental disability. He has a mental disorder that affects his ability to understand the consequences of his actions.

Lennie represents as a strong muscular man with a mind of four-year old boy . George is the caretaker of Lennie, George can't go anywhere without Lennie doing something wrong. Lennie likes soft things sometimes Lennie is stronger than he thinks ¨give me that mouse! , I didn't mean to kill it George¨ ( Steinbeck 4). Lennie refuses to give up the mouse Aunt Clara ¨ give you a rubber mouse and you wouldn't want nothing to do with it¨(Steinbeck 5).

We all may have had the feeling of loneliness and isolation, wanting companionship feeling abandonment. In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, there are men living on a ranch having their own reasons for loneliness or being isolated. The three characters Crooks, George, and Lennie crusade dealing with own ways of loneliness and isolation. Crooks has no one that likes him because he’s black, Lennie struggles mentally and George struggles with always having to care for him. They all can’t decide whether it is that they want to be alone or not.

Because of this she has lost her social companions, and her partner for life. She later loses her son due to the pearl which only makes her more alone in her life. Lennie is a character from Of Mice and Men who is ostracized due to his mental disabilities. Lennie suffers from a learning disability that leaves him in the mental state of a Child with a body of a full grown man. In a world full of grown men, a child does not fit in at all.

Throughout his novel, Of Mice and Men, critically acclaimed American author John Steinbeck utilizes an array of allegorical characters, understated symbolism, and subtle foreshadowing to display the relationship between the inevitability of death and the harsh reality of life during the Great Depression. Steinbeck utilizes an array of allegorical characters in an attempt to exhibit the relationship of death and the cruel reality of life during the Great Depression throughout the novel. Within the novel, readers are introduced to several allegorically similar characters, all of whom represent those who are unfit to contribute to society, and thus, are forcefully removed from it. The first of these allegorical characters is Lennie Small. Ironically, one of the

As stated by Mother Teresa,”Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Within Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck develops the theme of loneliness. John Steinbeck develops the theme of loneliness by showing it to us through three characters. The theme shows that human nature affects many people in different ways. Steinbeck shows us how loneliness can affect a person and how it has developed within the characters and shaped them.

Throughout Steinbeck’s naturalistic novel, Of Mice and Men, He portrays two distinctively different men struggling to persevere and survive in an otherwise cruel world. Two migrant workers, George and Lennie thrive off the company of one another and the impossible dream that one day, they will acquire land and make a contented life for themselves. Through their friendship and constant hope for a better life, George and Lennie learn how to survive and cling to aspiration during the harsh Depression era. Steinbeck uses symbolism, irony, and characterization in his classic novel to illustrate the undying hope found in a desperate situation. Steinbeck uses symbolism to portray how people find hope in the direst situations.

First, Crooks is an African American that is discriminated on the ranch and convinced that he will always be treated differently. Next, Lennie is a grown man that thinks and acts like a child as well as has a habit to want to stroke soft objects. Finally, Candy is an old man with one hand that feels as if he will not be needed on the ranch for much longer which leads to his gullibility. As one can see, Crooks, Lennie, and Candy are the outsiders of society in Of Mice and

The book Of Mice and Men is full of puzzling examples of the human condition, from Lennie and his mental disability to Curley only caring about his social appearance. With characters like these two, the book exploits the human condition that concerns circumstances life has given you. John Steinbeck brings to life what being a laborer in the American depression meant to the men and one woman who had enough personality to stand out. Steinbeck shows the human condition of men while they survive in the American depression.