Loneliness In Of Mice And Men

Have you ever felt a deep sense of loneliness? In Of Mice and Men loneliness comes across many characters in many different ways. Loneliness in Of Mice and Men is expressed with different types of conflict including character vs character, character vs society/grief, and character vs society.

First of all, in Of Mice and Men Curley's wife experiences character vs character conflict with loneliness in her marriage. She experiences this because Curley is a terrible husband and he's rude. He does not let anyone talk to her and makes that very clear. Most of the guys try to steer clear of her. When George says ¨well he aint now.”(Steinbeck. 31). This is when Goerge is in the barn helping the mule Curley's wife comes in looking for curley and asking if Curley was around there. George was making his responses small and fast so he caused no problems with her and was not seen talking to her by anyone. Curley's wife's loneliness develops because of her own husband shutting her out from himself and everyone else. Curley's wife is character vs character, her vs curley because Curley is the reason for her loneliness.

Candys dog was super old, stinks really bad, and could barely do anything. Everyone in the barn wanted Candy to kill the dog. At first Candy did not want his dog killed because like he said ¨no i couldn't do that. I had ´im too long¨ (Steinbeck. 45). Candy is not ready to let go of his dog yet because he's had him for such a long time he can't let go even though he knows he needs to, he's being stubborn. After Carlson shot Candys dog, later on Candy wished he would have done it himself. This is how it is character vs society because he did it because everyone else was begging him to put the dog