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Of Mice and Men : How Lonlines Effects the Characters
Title: Of Mice and Men : How Lonlines Effects the Characters
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 451 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Of Mice and Men : How Lonlines Effects the Characters
Loneliness affects many of the characters, and Steinbeck seems to show that it is a natural and inevitable result of the kind of life they are forced to lead. The itinerant workers are caught in a trap of loneliness - they never stay in one place long enough to form permanent relationships. Even if such relationships existed, they would probably be destroyed by the demands of the itinerant life.
Let's examine the lonely situation of some …showed first 75 words of 451 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 451 total…feelings are all channelled into aggressive behaviour which further isolates his wife and leads to the incident with Lennie where his hand is crushed.
Crooks is another who is isolated because he is different. He copes with it by keeping a distance between himself and the other hands. When he does allow himself to be drawn into the dream of working on George and Lennie's dream farm, he is immediately shut out by George's anger.
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