The Hollow Men

back come into your life it’s how you react to them that shows your true personality, not how you interact with someone better than you. In “Of mice and men” Steinbeck, the author, uses this form of indirect characterization very often, generally dealing with Lennie. A main character in the novella, who suffers from a mental handicap. In “Of mice of men” three people really showed their true personality by how they treated Lennie. Curlys dad owns the ranch in which Lennie works on. He treats…

hitchhiking, Griffin has a pleasant experience with a friendly white construction worker who offers him a ride. Griffin thinks the man must be color blind since he appeared to be unaware that he was black. Since there is no place that will serve black men, the man offers to buy him a hamburger and he lets Griffin eat it in the car. To Griffin, this construction worker is proof that goodness can exist in a world filled with racism and hatred. Another positive experience Griffin had involved an…

can rely on anybody they will feel trapped and scared. Many novels attempt to portray the loss of friendship within hard time periods. The characters Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife all display loneliness in their own way in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. First, Candy becomes lonely, losing much of his friendship and companionship in the book. Being the only elderly man on the ranch, it is difficult to make new connections. Initially, this does not prove to be much of an issue,…

displaced workers searching for a job just like Steinbeck was. The title also comes from a poem named “ To a mouse”. Steinbeck as also motivated by the American depression. John Steinbeck published many pieces of writing with the most famous, Of Mice and Men. Before the most famous story he published 6 books. The names are Cup of Gold, The Pastures of Heaven, The Red pony, The God Unknown, Tortilla Flat, and In Dubious Battle. Later after his famous book he published many more books until 1962.…

I the book of the Mice Of Men written by John Steinbeck, this essay will be talking about 3 characters and why they are lonely and there dreams. The three characters I will be talking about are Curly’s Wife ,Crooks,and Candy. The first person this essay will be talking about is Candy and his dream is to go with George and Lennie because soon he will get to old to do anything. “They’ll can me pretty soon. Jus as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me on the country”.(Steinbeck 60)…

to mind? Many people have a dream and that dream is called the American Dream. These three literature pieces have multiple things in common, but they all surround themselves with the American Dream. The Great Gatsby, The Crucible, and Of Mice and Men are all American Literature novels that portray the American Dream. In The Great Gatsby a guy named Jay Gatsby had a dream that he would end up with the love of his life. Jay grew up as a poor little boy, he also had a dream of not being poor for…

The book, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, has many different emotions in it. There is love, George and Lennie, Hate, lennie and Curley, and even death. But even in the end did George want to shoot Lennie? Even though Lennie did a lot of damage, George was not justified in his decision when he killed Lennie because George loved him and helped him. First, George shouldn't have killed Lennie because Lennie was like family, and George cared for him. An example of when George and Lennie care for…

Of Mice and Men is a very well written novel, it brings up many uneasy topics, that people do not like to talk about. Racism, Social Standing and Mental Disabilities are just a few topics the author brings up. But one of the topics that can be considered controversial is, are Lennie and George TRUE friends? I’d say Lennie and George are as true as friends get, because they always have eachothers backs and they want to gain;Money,Respect and Land, with each other. In Of Mice and Men, there is so…

We also see Curley’s wife in this chapter, we find out that she doesn’t really like Curley, but married him because her plans for Hollywood didn’t work out so well. It can be seen that she has a very high and mighty attitude, calling the men low-lifes, Crooks the n-word, and threatening to get him lynched because he spoke up. She complains about her marriage to Curley, telling us about how all he does is talk about fighting, and beating people up. She asks what happened to Curley’s hand…

always think of how you would feel in that situation. Both John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein wrap their stories around the idea that when people are treated as they appear, they will start to act that way. Nietzsche said “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” The characters Victor in Frankenstein and George in Of Mice and Men both were given a great responsibility, both of which failed because of outward…