Loneliness is a basic part of human life. Everyone becomes lonely once in a while but in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, he illustrates the loneliness of ranch life in the early 1930's and shows how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness. Steinbeck creates a lonely and blue atmosphere at many times in the book. He uses names and words such as the town near the ranch called "Soledad", which means loneliness and the card game "Solitaire" Which means by oneself. He makes it clear that all the men on the ranch are lonely, with particular people lonelier than others.
Just a Simple Outsider The novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck takes its’ setting in the 1930’s during The Grwat Depression. In this novel there’s two main characters Lennie and Geroge. These two men are on their journey to accomplish their dream but, they stumble on their way to achieve it. Lennie is mentally disabled and does as George tells him to. George is the dominant male in the relationship , because of Lennie’s disability it causes they both very much trouble back in Weed and on the ranch they arrive too after escaping.
She goes home everyday and waits by the window with makeup on wanting someone to knock on her door. When she died, nobody came to her funeral and she was buried along with her name. These two pieces of literature relate to each other because Steinbeck’s character, Crooks and Lennon and McCartney’s, Eleanor Rigby go through a lifetime of loneliness and keep on trying to get through it. John Steinbeck’s, Of Mice and Men relates to loneliness because the character Crooks. He lives in a ranch in the middle of nowhere, in a stable, far away from the rest of the workers.
Whereas Curley's wife feels lonely because she IS alone with nothing to but sit in her house and has no one to talk to and gains sympathy based off that. Some people feel lonely at times and are trying to figure out why. Crooks is lonely because he suffers discrimination from the workers on the ranch for being the only worker of color. While all the other workers get to sleep in the bunk house, Crooks has to sleep in the barn because no one will let him stay with them. “It's cause I’m black.
He could feel like he’s in unequal marriage, where George has all the responsibilities. Curley’s Wife is definitely no happy and very lonely since she is living in her father-in-laws house. She thinks she has missed her opportunities in life by living with Curley and a ‘band of lonely men’. She even tries to get a bit of companionship by flirting and talking with the men on the ranch but when she does is comes back on her horribly. No one on the ranch can get the key to not being lonely; the men on the ranch use all their money on the brothel every Saturday night but it doesn’t stop them being lonely, Lennie and George think that having their own place would solve ‘everything’.
They got no family, they don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch and work up a stake and they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing, you know they’re poundin’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead too.” What George means by this statement is that these migratory workers who are ranch hands, are constantly going to ranch from ranch, working for some money, and then since they are so lonely and have nothing to save up for or look ahead to, they go and spend all their money in town with the other men at bars and “cat houses” to be some-what happy for a night or so. This is their way of coping with this loneliness and depression. The reason behind all of these actions these men were taking in their lives was the economy and time period they were living in.
Throughout the book we are introduced to many characters that display loneliness and isolation, some more than others. Loneliness and isolation haunts most of the characters throughout the entire book. Furthermore, during the Great Depression, food prices and items increased making it more difficult to get hold of a job at the time. In some cases people would not get work at all, which is why some characters in Of Mice and Men found themselves in a very lonely and isolated environment. In Of Mice and Men, racism is displayed upon the negro on the farm.
Silvana Delgado Roberts Structure in Language and Literature II 04/05/2013 Of Mice and Men Essay The characters in Of Mice and Men have a feeling of loneliness and dissatisfaction throughout the book. Loneliness affects the life of Curley's wife, she has a desperate need to talk to anyone that is not her husband, and he's also the reason she is stuck at the ranch. Candy's loneliness comes from losing his pet that he has had for so many years, and he also fears that he will get fired. It also has an effect on Crooks, who does not spend time with people because he is judged and mistreated by the workers in the ranch. John Steinbeck creates the characters in Of Mice and Men with a theme of loneliness
They are all, in turn, escaping from their problem and they all end up in the barn. The barn is like their home and it is in fact Crooks’ home. As Crooks has faced so much discrimination and racism in his life he has turned aggressive and impolite. He was forced to live and work alone – isolation – and because of this when anyone does try to talk to him he snaps at them. ‘Crooks said sharply, “You got no right to come in my room.
They were sent by cattle cars on a treacherous journey that took six weeks to get to the endless Steppes of Siberia to weed potato fields. In the cattle cars the conditions were terrible. Esther and her family were faced with hunger, lack of air, dirt, inadequate bathrooms, etc. When they got to their destination (the train station) they still had a little ways to walk until they reached the town where they would be working, they eventually reached their new “home”. The Rudomin family was sent to the bigger of the two buildings.