Essay “Of Mice and Men”
Steinbeck is trying to say how “loneliness” can trap someone in a room of nothing, only darkness and despair and how people find it hard to get out of it.
I believe this because in the story “Of Mice and Men” there are a few people if not all, that I believe to be lonely. The people are always looking over their shoulder always trying to play it safe to keep whatever it is that they have; whether it be whatever they have left of their self dignity or honesty. With all of this that they do it’s almost as if they can’t afford to get attached to anyone or anything. Hence this quote “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,”he cried ,”I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick”. (Steinbeck 72-73). This quote is very powerful in the subject by itself but it feels as if though it isn’t enough, see it touches the whole part of the not being able to get attached even though at times it can be hard and at the end of the day you just want someone to be there to comfort you or even have something there to help you do things such as talk and not be interrupted, just to know that someone is listening.. This quote tells us many things not only about the person, but about the environment also. What I mean by this is that a person can …show more content…
Yeah they have a little bit of fun playing cards and horseshoes but people can look and act like they are all happy on the outside but when really they are very depressed on the inside and this relates to most of the people on the farm as
Steinbeck is trying to say how “loneliness” can trap someone in a room of nothing, only darkness and despair and how people find it hard to get out of it.
I believe this because in the story “Of Mice and Men” there are a few people if not all, that I believe to be lonely. The people are always looking over their shoulder always trying to play it safe to keep whatever it is that they have; whether it be whatever they have left of their self dignity or honesty. With all of this that they do it’s almost as if they can’t afford to get attached to anyone or anything. Hence this quote “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,”he cried ,”I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick”. (Steinbeck 72-73). This quote is very powerful in the subject by itself but it feels as if though it isn’t enough, see it touches the whole part of the not being able to get attached even though at times it can be hard and at the end of the day you just want someone to be there to comfort you or even have something there to help you do things such as talk and not be interrupted, just to know that someone is listening.. This quote tells us many things not only about the person, but about the environment also. What I mean by this is that a person can …show more content…
Yeah they have a little bit of fun playing cards and horseshoes but people can look and act like they are all happy on the outside but when really they are very depressed on the inside and this relates to most of the people on the farm as