Randy Quaid

The Lonely Mouse Of Mice and Men is a timeless book containing themes of loneliness, friendship, dreams, and the death of them. The reader will learn about and connect with two men eager to live their lives the way they want by using any opportunities they find during the Great Depression. George and Lennie represent anyone going through life and experiencing the ups and downs and expectations of what could lie ahead. The reality that John Steinbeck shows us in this book is something that…

“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.” -Pauline Phillips. Throughout the novella Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows how loneliness really is the ultimate poverty. The novella takes place during the 1930s, during the Great Depression, on a farm in California. Almost every worker was living in poverty, but the lonely ones struggled the most. Steinbeck displays loneliness through a variety of characters but the most notable ones were Curley's wife, Candy, and Crooks. The first character to display…

Back in the 1930s, when this novel took place, the men of the family had no choice but to travel to any where that had job opportunities available. This meant that he women and children were left at home for extended periods of time while the husbands worked to support them. When the men would travel, they would not usually go with a buddy or a friend, but alone with no one to talk to. To all men that traveled during this time, loneliness was universal. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men,…

In the book the mice of me.There is a guy named Candy that is depressed and he wants to hang that by getting new friends and i want to change that by writing this essay. Candy is a old farmer that lives in the middle of nowhere and he loves dogs and he had his dog for a long time and then he met george and his friend Lenny and they live in the city and they were abandoned in the wild and then they found a house which was Candys house.Candy was nice enough to let them live there for a while…

In the book Of Mice and Men the story takes place on a ranch where the amount of respect you get is generally based upon the amount of physical labor you can do while working on the ranch John Steinbeck introduces us one of the characters Candy, who is a disabled older worker on the ranch who appears to be fine but the reader realizes he is lonely and feels useless on the ranch. Candy is one of the loneliest workers on the ranch and his best friend and probably only true friend was his dog that…

Loneliness is a common theme in the book Of Mice and Men. Every worker on the ranch has a certain degree of loneliness in their life. A specific character that deals with loneliness is Candy, he is one of the loneliest workers on the ranch. Candy is a disabled character on the ranch, and because of his disability, he feels secluded from the other ranchers. Candy’s only family is a dog he has had since it was a pup. Candy feels less useless and different compared to the other ranchers, because…

Lennie’s Mental Disability: Unable to Control Actions Everyone at one point in their life has seen or came across someone with a mental handicap. Without dealing with one yourself it is hard to understand the challenges many are faced with these disabilities. In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, almost every character struggles with some sort of disability whether it be mental or physical. Most notably, however is Steinbeck’s Lennie Small who, as a migrant rancher worker, has faced many…

Of Mice and Men Essay - Briar Hoversten Alone: having no one else present; on one’s own. That’s what the author, John Steinbeck, the author of this book symbolizes. Of Mice and Men is a book about friendship, deception, and death, but most importantly, Loneliness. Mr. Steinbeck makes it believable, that in most cases, when you’re with people, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not alone. In a lot of cases with people in this book, some of them being Curly’s Wife, Candy, and Crooks even. In…

All friendships have consequences. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie’s friendship comes with a severe consequence. George and Lennie’s friendship is unique because it portrays two different people who come together and benefit each other. However, a tragedy occurs when Lennie accidentally murders Curley’s wife. George has to make a decision on taking Lennie’s life, or letting him live. George makes the right decision of taking Lennie’s life because he is a danger to…

John Steinbeck, author of Of Mice and Men, creates a competitive society where the strong exploits the weak. The definition of the word exploit is to get a value or use from something; and to use or manipulate to one’s advantage. By doing exploiting different characters, the author is able to add conflict and tension between them throughout the story. George and Slim enter the dark bunkhouse where a light is cast over Slim. George then explains to Slim why he and Lennie had to leave Weed. He…