How Loneliness Affect The Mind
In his novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the essential loneliness of California ranch life in the 1930s. He illustrates how people are driven to find companionship. There are three phases each character goes through when they are experiencing loneliness for a long period of time. The first phase is called the seeker phase, the second phase is called the hopeless phase, and the last phase is the destroyer phase. At the end of the book, Steinbeck shows how each character reacts after the three phases.
The first phase, also known as the seeker phase, is shown in the first part of the book when Lennie and George first came to the farm. The character that was most noticeably in this phrase was Curley’s wife and the way she would constantly flirt with the workers through the first half of the book. “She smiled archly and twitched her body. ‘Nobody can blame a person for lookin’,’she said” (Steinbeck 31-32) this example Steinbeck gives the reader shows how the human character tries not be lonely by searching for other people to …show more content…
The most noticeable is Crooks, and the way he never does anything else besides work day after day. Crooks also gave up on his dreams and get upset at Lennie for believing in his dreams, the quote that supports this is from pages “I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it"(Steinbeck 62). Crooks lost hope on dreams and seen other people that lost hope so he was eager to tell Lennie to give up on his dreams and to move on. The reason Crooks gave up on his dream because of the accident, that cut off his hand and he can make enough money to leave. The last phase is the most
In his novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the essential loneliness of California ranch life in the 1930s. He illustrates how people are driven to find companionship. There are three phases each character goes through when they are experiencing loneliness for a long period of time. The first phase is called the seeker phase, the second phase is called the hopeless phase, and the last phase is the destroyer phase. At the end of the book, Steinbeck shows how each character reacts after the three phases.
The first phase, also known as the seeker phase, is shown in the first part of the book when Lennie and George first came to the farm. The character that was most noticeably in this phrase was Curley’s wife and the way she would constantly flirt with the workers through the first half of the book. “She smiled archly and twitched her body. ‘Nobody can blame a person for lookin’,’she said” (Steinbeck 31-32) this example Steinbeck gives the reader shows how the human character tries not be lonely by searching for other people to …show more content…
The most noticeable is Crooks, and the way he never does anything else besides work day after day. Crooks also gave up on his dreams and get upset at Lennie for believing in his dreams, the quote that supports this is from pages “I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it"(Steinbeck 62). Crooks lost hope on dreams and seen other people that lost hope so he was eager to tell Lennie to give up on his dreams and to move on. The reason Crooks gave up on his dream because of the accident, that cut off his hand and he can make enough money to leave. The last phase is the most