Why Loneliness isn't Your Friend
Have you ever had a friend or a companion? Friendship is a wonderful thing, friendship allows people to connect and help with one another. Without friendship, people start to get lonely and stodgy. For a long period of time loneliness leads to isolation and clinginess. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, loneliness ruins peoples lives because people hold onto lies and ching onto unimportant items.
In Of Mice and Men the character, Candy, held onto something for too long. Candy exclaimed “‘Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup.’”, Candy's dog was old and “...walked a dragfooted sheepdog, gray of muzzle, with pale, blind old eyes…”. Later Candy agreed to put the dog out of its misery. Later in the book, Candy has shown George his saving of almost three hundred dollars, which Candy had saved up from working many years at the ranch and for compensation losing his hand. Thus this is why Candy is so lonely in the novella. …show more content…
In chapter 4, Lennie and Candy talk to Crooks, in Crook’s harness and bedroom. “Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun... There were battered magazines and a few dirty books… A pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles…” this shows that Crooks held onto items for extended periods of time. Crooks also didn’t want anyone in his room and wanted to stay alone, but when Lennie and Candy go and see him Crooks lightens up and becomes more friendly, but after Candy and Lennie leave Crooks went back to
Have you ever had a friend or a companion? Friendship is a wonderful thing, friendship allows people to connect and help with one another. Without friendship, people start to get lonely and stodgy. For a long period of time loneliness leads to isolation and clinginess. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, loneliness ruins peoples lives because people hold onto lies and ching onto unimportant items.
In Of Mice and Men the character, Candy, held onto something for too long. Candy exclaimed “‘Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup.’”, Candy's dog was old and “...walked a dragfooted sheepdog, gray of muzzle, with pale, blind old eyes…”. Later Candy agreed to put the dog out of its misery. Later in the book, Candy has shown George his saving of almost three hundred dollars, which Candy had saved up from working many years at the ranch and for compensation losing his hand. Thus this is why Candy is so lonely in the novella. …show more content…
In chapter 4, Lennie and Candy talk to Crooks, in Crook’s harness and bedroom. “Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun... There were battered magazines and a few dirty books… A pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles…” this shows that Crooks held onto items for extended periods of time. Crooks also didn’t want anyone in his room and wanted to stay alone, but when Lennie and Candy go and see him Crooks lightens up and becomes more friendly, but after Candy and Lennie leave Crooks went back to