The case study of Lennie Small provides A descriptive illustration of loneliness as the discussion reveals that Lennie suffers from psychological and cognitive loneliness. The feeling of loneliness itself is caused by being unable to fit in and being abused and rejected by others. The study also reveals how Lennie attempts to cope with loneliness through the desire for someone and by crying. Full Text: PDF. References "Causes of Loneliness". Retrieved on 5 April Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
New York: Bantam Books, Inc. Focus and Scope. Journal History. Peer Review Process. Ethics Statement. His behaviour and mindset following the revelation that his dream is no longer obtainable clearly indicate that George no longer believes in his dream, he has acknowledged the fact that his dream is no longer attainable.
Loneliness is a key aspect that flows throughout the Of Mice and Men plot line. Every character express some sort of loneliness at one time or another in this story. Some character express the fact that they are currently alone and others express that they have been lonely in their past.
Others do not clearly state that they have even thought about loneliness, but they do give subtle hints at to it. The two main characters in this story are George and Lennie, they travel together and yet both express their struggles and fears of being alone.
If you had the choice to save your friend from misery by kill them. What would you do? Both George and Lennie stick together like brothers through the rough times of the Great Depression. These events lead to and foreshadow the farm dream being dead.
George tells lennie to hide in the brush if he gets in trouble. When Candy told Crooks about the farm and Crooks wanted to go with and Candy was ok about it but as Candy was leaving Crooks said to forget about it so right there is where it dies for Crooks.
Will the dream of George, Candy, and Crooks die? Nobody can hurt you. There are many examples of how loneliness is portrayed through different characters and events in the book of mice and men.
In this novel two Characters George and Lennie get kicked out of their last city and travel to soledad to start their new life. Lennie causes lots of commotion at the ranch which turns people against George and Lennie.
At the end of the novel George kills Lennie which raises the question if he fairly weighed all of the options and if his choice was justified or condemned. This continuous migration deterred them from building substantial relationships. Due to the lack of companionship and depression of the era, it appears that the characters are bound to loneliness.
Loneliness is an inevitable fact of life and cannot be avoided, as shown prevalent through each of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Each and every character in this novel exhibits loneliness. Lennie was isolated for being mentally handicapped , Candy was isolated for being old and disabled, Crooks was for being black, Curley's wife for being a woman, and George for having to care for Lennie and being unable to socialize with others because of Lennie's consistency of getting into trouble from town …show more content… In the past, when George and Lennie went into the local town where they were working, Lennie always found a way to get into trouble.
This was because the other people in the town do not understand his problem, and react with anger instead of sympathy Rascoe George is also just as lonely as the other characters in Of Mice and Men but he is also the character that least exhibits it. He was lonely because Lennie is his only friend and he got very frustrated with him Dusenbury George could not talk to Lennie in an adult manner. When talking to Lennie, George must say things two or three times just so that Lennie would understand what he was trying to say, or so that he doesn't forget.
George made friends with Candy, Slim and Whit to hopefully be able to have an intellectual conversation. He only put up with Lennie because he knew that if he didn't, Lennie would probably die because he wouldn't be able to fend for himself due to his handicap Rascoe George gives us a glimpse of his loneliness in his quote "Guys like us, that live on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.
With us, we ain't like that, we got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us" Steinbeck
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