Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Of Mice and Men -
Loneliness and isolation
- Everyone on the Ranch is Lonely
- The men on the ranch are like orphans-
George says, "They got no family"
- The bunk house guys blow
their money every Saturday
night on prostitutes and booze.
- They go for some companionship
but it doesn't stop them being lonely.
- It's unusual for the ranchers to make friends.
- Most of the ranchers comment on how strange it is that
George and Lennie travel together
- "Funny how you an' him string along together"
- Crooks, the stable buck, lives all alone - he's
segregated from the others because he's black.
- When Lennie pays him a surprise
visit, Crooks doesn't seem to want his
company.
- He's used to lonliness and at first he
seems to find it hard to enjoy another
person's company.
- Curley is lonely even though he's married.
- Nobody likes him
- The only time you see him with his
wife is when she's dead.
- No One can think of an Answer
- Lennie and George think that having their own place would solve everything
- But George doesn't ever really
seem to think this will happen
- Lennie and George look after each other but
George still seems lonely
- George tells Slim, "I
ain't got no people"
and that he and Lennie
travel together just
because they're "used
to each other".
- Animals seem to provide a
temporary solution to the
problem of loneliness
- But Lennie kills all the animals he gets
- And Candy has his dog until it gets shot.
- Steinbeck offers no solution to loneliness
- Even marriage doesn't stop people from being lonely
- Loneliness appears to be part of human nature
- It's not something the characters can change.
- Looking for Companionship can be Dangerous
- Crooks and Candy's attempt to grab hold of
George and Lennie's dream
- Ends in Bitter disappointment for them
- Lennie holding his animals, holding the girl's skirt in Weed,
and holding on to Curleys wife
- Ends in tragedy
- Curley's wife trying to get a bit of companionship by flirting&talking with the
ranchers
- Ends in disaster for her
- It does the opposite