Essay on Lonliness

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Of Mice And Men

Of Mice And Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck during 1937. The novel is based on the lives of two characters 'George Milton and Lennie Small'. Other characters in this novel are: Candy, Curley, Curley's wife, Slim, Crooks, Carlson, Whit, The Boss and aunt Clara. In these characters, there are two women however, only one of them is seen in the novel as aunt Clara is introduced dead and the only female we see is Curley's wife whose name we don't know throughout the whole novel. We only see her as 'Curley's wife'. Due to this, some people think that Of Mice And Men is a depressing novel.

In this novel, most of the characters are lonely and are alone. The loneliest person in the novel is Curley's wife because she is the only female in the novel and so, to reduce the loneliness, she goes to the ranch and flirt with them by asking “Any you boys seen Curley?” After getting the answer, “She stood still in the doorway, smiling a little at them”. From this quote we can see that she has come here for something else and not to ask for Curley because she still stood there smiling at them.

She knew where Curley was. “Think I don't know where they all went? Even Curley”. If she already knew that, why would she come here to ask them? This is due to the loneliness she has to suffer alone because whenever Curley is there, he “Spends all his time sayin' what he's gonna do to guys he don't like”. From this quote finally, we know that she is lonely, she is the only female and the only one she can talk to is Curley but, he is too busy with his own thing. So, she comes here to flirt with them.

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Due to loneliness, Curley's wife get a chance to talk to Lennie and she prepares her meeting with Lennie. “I'll talk to you later. I like machines.” This shows that she got a chance to talk to him because we never knew that she likes machine, and by her saying this, we know that immediately that she just wants to only talk to him and she has no likes or dislikes with machines, she just said that out of the blue because when Candy lost his hand while using the machine, we didn't hear Curley's wife inspecting about it ...

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