Now that Allie is dead and that D.B. moved away, Holden feels that he doesn’t have anyone. It is just he and his little sister Phoebe. Holden also misses his family, and rarely gets to see them because he goes to a boarding school. Holden feels depressed from the prior events in his family, and no longer has the desire to learn or strive to be successful.
There are not many people on the island, so he wonders what child the angel sees upset or hurt. Finally, a few days later it struck him. He realizes that he longs for his father each day and the angel is the only one who can see that. Tyson truly dislikes the rain and is in complete shock that he is the reason for it. He wants to be happy, but his father is still not there.
The men who view him this way are totally different from each other. For example, George plays the role of the family member to Lennie, which at times makes him act cruel towards Lennie. At first, Crooks views Lennie as just another one of the workers who treats him badly then later realizes he is a nice and caring man. Curley on the other hand strongly dislikes big men and being that Lennie is a big guy, Curley never gives Lennie a chance to be friends. Lennie is viewed by s few characters in the novel and it affects their characterization.
One of the major reasons for Holden’s depression is failing at many different things. Holden does not have any close friends to talk to and has a very hard time establishing long term relationships. Another cause for his depression is the death of his younger brother Allie, he has always thought that the world would have been better off if he had died instead of his brother. There are many reasons for Holden’s depression including multiple failures, having very few friends, and the death of his younger brother Allie. A large portion of Holden’s depression comes from failing multiple times.
9). This shows that he does not have many real friends because nobody wants to talk to him, even on the phone. Holden's gloomy youth all started with the death of his brother, Allie. There are many examples where the reader can tell that he misses Allie and where he refers back to him. "Allie, don't let me disappear.
T.B has a mother, father, two brothers, and one sister, there is rarely any contact between them. Although there is no significant past family history psychologically, there is a history of past verbal abuse towards T.B from his mother and father, which is a contributing factor to his problems with coping and managing anger. Other contributing factors that negatively impact the client’s outcome of treatment are that he is single and lives alone and does not have contact with his family, so he has no support to help him manage his disorder, this is a particular problem with the medication regime, as T.B has a difficult time remembering to
He argued with himself. The worry had started a few hours before, while Ruth was sleeping. Now, he couldn’t rid himself of the fear. No matter how he reasoned, it didn’t help.”(Matheson 114). Neville always relied solely on science but his mind was so hopeful for companionship he overlooked his reasoning and let her inside his house.
Crooks does not associate with many people which causes him not to have many friends. He is also a hard worker,as soon as he finishes he goes to his bunk and stays quite till the day is over. Crooks does not even try to get alone with anyone because he feels excluded from all the other men on the ranch. He got the name " Crooks" by an accident when a horse kick him in the back. Crooks personality makes him not have any friends, he is not the type of person who would want friends.
He wanted to test his theory of the earth's magnetism at the north pole, and was on a ship traveling there. He seemed to be an intellectual, and knowledgeable person, but he felt alone and isolated because the only people he was with were the crewmen on the boat, and they did not share his passion for exploration. Even though he was physically with people, he didn't have any friends to share his dreams and goals with. His sister was the only person who he could share this with but she was hundreds of miles away from him. In the letters, we find out that Walton really doesn’t have any friends but he longs for one.
Biff no longer had his own dreams or desires in life, he merely wanted to keep his suicidal father pleased for the time being. Although Biff’s life was less complicated as a salesman for the time being, when his father passes away, Biff was going to have to continue the undesired life of a salesman. Biff “[didn’t] have a seed in the ground” (122). Biff had no foundation or dreams to live for. Biff cannot grow and develop into a successful adult because he has nothing to work from, just as a plant cannot grow when there is no seed