The Theme Of Loneliness In The Crooks Of The Mother Teresa

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty Mother Teresa. The impact of loneliness on any human being lures them towards sadness and depression and oneself can come upon this feeling even while accompanied by others. The quantity of people who are in your life, versus the quality of each of those relationships can determine whether a person will be lonesome or gratified. Throughout the tenacious times of the great depression, labors often traveled from site to site picking up meagre jobs, And not to mention, blowing off their money on useless entities, leading the laborers to purposeless solitary life. Through the marginalization of the three characters crooks, candy, and Curley’s wife, the motif of loneliness …show more content…
66) The reference of the broken harness directly relate to the character crooks through the fact that he is represented as the broken harness who is hurt and broken from the recurring marginalization and discrimination which eventually led to this solidarity. In the first few paragraphs of chapter 4, the author describes the African-Americans segregated room and how miserable he is while living in it. It is evident from the imagery that Crooks is portrayed by the harness and he 's both physically broken from the work he is doing, but also emotionally distraught through the alienation and victimization. In the process of being mended, crooks was at a point where he was about to fall apart, just like the harness, and had no more mental strength to keep going; at the same time he was waiting for himself to heal, But could not manage to figure out how. Later in the chapter, Lennie then wanders into Crooks room, clueless, and crooks replies. "you got no right to come in my room. Nobody 's got any right in here... Come on in and set a while, Crooks said. Long as you won 't get out and leave me alone you might as well set down." (68-69) through the analysis of this quote, it is transparent that Crooks is longing for a …show more content…
When Candy’s dog was taken outside by Carlson, a fellow ranch worker, to put it out of its misery and the author writes, "A shot sound in the distance, and they all looked quickly at the old man. For a moment he continued to stare at the ceiling. Then he slowly rolled over and face the wall and Lay silent." (Pg. 49) through the analysis of this quote, Candy is on mistakenly depressed and so awful about the death of his only true companion. The other characters marginalized candy due to his age, and the dog was the only one that can do he knew would stick by his side without hurting him. Nicole exemplifies the fact that the old man wants to be left alone and has lost what means the most to him without his own companion, and the only meaningful purpose in life, no man no feels as if his life is pointless. The dog was resemblance of Candy himself, by the fact that he was owned and a incompetent part of the ranch. To portray the loneliness of Curleys wife as the only female on the ranch, Steinbeck notes, "Seems like they ain 't none of them cares how I got to live. I tell you I ain 't used to living like this. I could of made something of myself," she said darkly, " ' Maybe I will yet '" (pg. 89) although Curleys wife had a husband, named currently, he did not treat her with respect and to the fact that she was liable to a name, it shows

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