Isolation Of Mice And Men

We’ve all heard of the typical scenario of a kid sitting at lunch all alone and no one goes to sit with them until one person does and they become friends. Have you ever thought why that kid would be sitting alone? Is it because they have tried to make friends and talk to people but they were rejected or were they to scared to talk to someone and became isolated out of their own choice? In the book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there is a theme of loneliness and isolation that plays out throughout the entire book through multiple characters. The loneliness of a character in this book could be cause by a social barrier or out of their own choice. Steinbeck describes the feeling of loneliness and isolation through the characters by their …show more content…
A little detail in a book could foreshadow a huge event or something that will change the path of the book all together. Steinbeck does the same thing in his book, Of Mice and Men. Early in the book, Candy gets his old dog shot by Charlson and says this to George, “I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t oughtta of let no stranger shoot my dog.” (Steinbeck 61) This foreshadows the ending of the book, where George shoots Lennie. Lennie is like a dog to George and resembles Candy’s dog in many ways. Lennie isn’t aware of his own strength and ends up hurting things and people, he also can’t think for himself and has to have someone else tell him what to do. The same thing goes for Candy’s dog, the dog had outgrown its usefulness and couldn’t do anything by itself. Candy told George he didn’t shouldn’t have let a stranger kill his own dog, it foreshadows George not wanting Curley to kill Lennie. Another foreshadowing that Steinbeck does in this book is when Curley’s wife comes into play for the first time and walks around talking to George and Lennie looking for Curley. George talks to Lennie after Curley 's wife leads and says, “I never ment no harm, George. Honest I never.” “Well you keep away from her, ‘cause she’s a rattrap if I ever seen one…” (32) When Curley’s wife comes in and George notices Lennie …show more content…
It then does not just become another boring story with the same plot line, but it becomes a story with branches, rivers, trees, mountains, etc. It creates a much more interesting story for the reader to get lost in. Plot detail is crucial if you want to create a story that doesn’t just brush off the reader 's head, plot detail allows the author to stick the story deeper into the mind of the reader. In Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George come off as mysterious characters with no background. As they start talking you get plot detail and little things that have happened in their lives that have made them who they are or things in their lives that restrict them for doing things. In the story, Lennie likes to pet things and ends up killing them by accident because of his strength. When George and Lennie come to the farm, George mentions what happened in their previous job with Lennie, “Well, he seen this girl in a red dress… he reaches out to feel this red dress an’ the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he hold on ‘cause that’ the only thing he can think to do…”(41). By including this detail into the plot, we learn that since Lennie likes to pet things, he sometimes gets caught in situations he doesn’t know how to get out of. Steinbeck includes an interesting detail about Lennie throughout the book, that reveals more about