Of Mice of Men Loneliness Theme

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Curley’s wife is the only women in the story. She might be the loneliest of all characters. Her husband Curley doesn’t treat her well and has no one to talk to. She try’s going around talking to others to feel a little less lonely. “Nobody can blame a person for looking” This means she is looking for someone to talk to, to feel less lonely. She died when trying to be friendly, when talking to Lennie. This shows the extreme she had to take herself just to communicate with someone. She also thought that men were more comfortable with her than the others. “If I catch any one man, and he's alone, I get along fine with him. But just let two of the guys get together an' you won't talk. Jus' nothing but mad. You're all scared of each other, that's what. Ever' one of you's scared the rest is goin' to get something on you”. She talks aout her loneliness on one quote suggest that she is essapally alone on a Saturday night when she is always alone wheater or not they are in. Its one of the way she shows to us she is lonely. 4.        “- Sat’iday night. Ever’body out doin’ som’pin’. Ever’body! An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs – a nigger an’ a dum-dum and a lousy o;’ sheep – an’ likin’ it because they ain’t nobody else.”

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Curley is a character who thinks he is simply the best and because of his boxing career he has over confidence and thinks he is better than all. This bought him to pick on Lennie as he was mentally disable and acts as a child. This made him as a bully as he didn’t have many friends to spend time with; again loneliness leads to many problems like this. He married a women to feel as little less lonely but unfortunately just after 2 weeks they hated each other. I thnk the main reason for this is his anger over ...

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