Of+Mice+and+Men+final+essay


 * LONLINESS**

Loneliness. Avery horrible thing. No one should have to endure it.A man once said, "It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.This is true of men as of dogs." Is it true? I think it is. //Of Mice and Men// is a good example. I have chosen three peoples examples. One is Crooks, the negro stable-buck. Two is Curleys wife, who has no name, and last is Candy, a disabled man.

Crooks is black. The only freinds that he could name is probably the animals and maybe Slim. Crooks said to Lennie, "S'pose you have nobody. S'pose you couldn'tgo into the bunkhouse cause you black. A guy needs someone to be near him, or they'll go nuts. I tell ya a guy gets lonely an' he gets sick."( pg.72 --73) he tells Lennie how lonely he is. Even when he isn't talking, his loneliness is evident, obvious even. Everyone in the book can see it, everyone readings it can hear his loneliness.The only one who doesn't is Lennie. He has an excuse of being a little slow.

Curley's wife, out of the whole book, is the second most lonely person.

She doesn't even have a name. Just "Curley's wife. " She,although not purposely, is killed by Lennie. Her last words are "Careful, you'll muss it", and, more inportantly, "I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely." The key word is never. The only person she can talk to is Curley. She

claims she doesn't like Curley though. Everywhere she goes, and everytime she tries to talk to someone other than Curley, they shut her out, or they tell her to go back to her house.

Candy is a man with only one hand. He is very happy, or at least he was. It all went bad for him when they shot his dog. His only true friend, dead. I think that put him on equal ground with Crooks for most lonely. When he's to old to work, they'll "can him." "I wont have no place to go, I can't get no more jobs," he said. ( pg. 61)

In conclusion, he is right. Lonliness speaks loudest. Especially in those three. I dont know about the dog part. Maybe this will help you decide.