Dealing With The Lonely Life

Water is a commonly used symbol of cleansing or peace, and in this book, Hemingway uses water to symbolize both. Across the novel, when Jake leaves his friends and is away from his pain (Brett), water is clearly present, representing peace and happiness. The two times that Jake is alone and relaxing, when fishing and when in San Sebastian, he describes the water vividly and emphasizes nature’s presence. “Then in the quiet water I turned and floated. Floating I saw only the sky, and felt the drop and lift of the swells...

Friends are needed in a person’s life for emotional stability whom without would lead to a life of loneliness and solitude. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters Crooks, Candy and Curly’s wife exhibit a form of loneliness. They are driven to George and Lennie’s friendship because they lack support and that emotional stability in their own lives."A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't matter no difference who the guy is, longs he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 13). Throughout his novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows that victims of isolation crave to fulfill a companionship to fill in that void of loneliness.

Similarly, Jake keeps looking back in his past and resents the time's people have wronged him, particularly his father. The narrator states that “He [father] had a way of making it harder for me [Jake]” and how “always when I [Jake] was around him[father] I did things to make me ashamed”(35). So instead of learning from his past and his father’s shortcomings he latches onto them and does the same with his daughter and family. This demonstrates Jake’s unforgiving nature and how he has trouble accepting his former and current life. Throughout the story Jake is shown to be irresponsible as he spends his wife’s support check getting drunk, he constantly comments on everybody’s negative nature but never seems to embrace their positive side. He is heedless of his daughter’s life and is seen when he asks her how school is and she replies by saying that “It’s holidays”. Jake is an ironic character in the way that he doesn't like to communicate with people but he works as a salesman, he wants people to remember him but he keeps doing things that would make one forget him. Jake is very morose and has suicidal thoughts, one instance is when he thinks of his beer bottle as a gun. “His hand taking the gun to his mouth because he had nothing left to say and no reason to go on living”. Jake’s telephone symbolizes a choice, he can use the phone to reach out to people or have it disconnected which would mean him giving into his solitary life and perhaps commit suicide. But things seem to change when Jake has to save his drowning daughter’s life and he himself has a near death experience while trying to save her. This causes Jake to have an epiphany and rethink his approach to life, he decides that the time has come where he has to choose between hiding behind his telephone or using it to reach

In life, everyone wants to have somebody they can call a friend. The unfortunate reality of this is that at some point in time, almost every person will experience loneliness. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, deals with the hardships of two friends who put their belief in a giant pipe dream. The book follows George and Lennie’s troubled and laborious life until their plans go very awry. “King of Hoboes, Arvel Pearson”, by Errol Lincoln Uys, is a nonfiction text which overviews Arvel Pearson’s life as a professional hobo. This includes a detailed version of what it was like to be a hobo in the time period known as the Great Depression and provides an idea of

Lorie Watkins Fulton believes that in Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, Brett is on her journey to find happiness and peace for herself. Fulton states that Jake creates a negative image of Brett to the readers as he narrates. He makes her seem unsteady with her life as she goes around having sex with whoever she pleases. Fulton describes Jake as someone who did nothing to solve his problems or enjoy life to the fullest. Instead, he accepted his place in the world while Brett is out living her life. After the war, Brett pursuits a new lifestyle through religion but it seems like when Brett finally gets a chance, something always gets in the way of letting her in. The moment she enters, she sees that it's not for her so she leaves with

How many girls and women deal with loneliness? How many of them do you know of? Maybe some girls would cut themselves, sleeping with different men, drinking and doing drugs just for someone to notice them. However, Esperanza a character form The House on Mango Street deals with loneliness, in a good way and Curley’s wife a character from Of Mice of Men, deals with it in a horrible way like most girls. The girls that deal with in the negative way they might end up pregnant, in jail, or addicted to drugs and alcohol.

“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone” (Paul Tillich). “Coming of age” books have characters that are trying to “find” themselves. Books that are in the coming of age genre have characters that deal with loneliness at some point. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and Dead Poet’s Society directed by Peter Weir all share a common theme of loneliness.

These are the characters that are lonely in Of Mice and Men they were lonely from the beginning of the story to the end of the story.In the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck used a lot of loneliness but at the end they found something or someone to be

Loneliness is experienced in many ways by a multitude of people at one point or another in their lives. How it effects their personal situation is based upon how harshly this illness plagues them. John Steinbeck pants a vivid portrait of loneliness through the characters of Candy, Curly’s Wife, and Crooks in his novel “Of Mice and Men”. Loneliness can manifest itself both physically and emotionally through living a lifestyle that doesn’t provide the opportunity for a solid relationship to form, creating lonely and alienated characters that migrate their way through life.

Imagine life without parents, without a best friend, without pets or children. Imagine a world alone. Some people in their lives must endure this pain, and yes, it is sad, but it is true. Loneliness is a sickness that is not easily cured. Some people go through there whole lives alone either because of something they did or something that happened to them.

Of Mice and Men is a skillful novel, that portrays the idea of loneliness throughout the novel. Two men, George and Lennie are there for each other through everything. They also have their tiffs just like any other friends. There are several clearly stated themes running through the novel. But, the two themes that interact with each other are loneliness and companionship.

In Hemingway's philosophical paradigm, it is subconsciously encoded that Jake suffers with poise and refinement. He does not become irate with Brett for her decision, by contrast, he accepts her promiscuity and even chooses to help her in a multitude of ways, even though she repeatedly claims that she loves him. Consequentially, this is not to say that Jake did not suffer, rather than to suggest that he keeps his pain suppressed so as not to enervate himself any further. Jake knows the two can never initiate a relationship yet he still wishes to do so; his undying desire to be with Brett serves as his illusion even though it is a complete contradiction of his reality, as presented in the novel. This is the disheartening romantic imagery that deceits his realistic views. For example, in Chapter 7, Hemingway’s use of minimum dialogue between Brett and Jake has much meaning, which is rarely expressed throughout the novel. “Couldn’t we live together, Brett? …” “I don’t think so. I’d just tromper you with everybody.” (p. 62) Essentially, what Brett is saying is that due to his – handicap, if you will, all she would do is hurt Jake and commit constant infidelity against him, therefore, any chance for commitment is but a joke. This direct dialogue sets the underlying conflict as a form for one of the main themes expressed by Hemingway throughout this novel.

To be lonely is an easy thing, being alone is another matter entirely. To understand this, first one must understand the difference between loneliness and being alone. To be alone means that your are not in the company of anyone else. You are one. But loneliness can happen anytime, anywhere. You can be lonely in a crowd, lonely with friends, lonely with family. You can even be lonely while with loved ones. For feeling lonely, is in essence a feeling of being alone. As thought you were one and you feel as though you will always be that way. Loneliness can be one of the most destructive feelings humans are capable of feeling. For loneliness can lead to depression, suicide, and even to raging out and hurting friends and/or

According to George Monbiot’s article “The Age of Loneliness Is Killing Us” Monbiot states that society is shifting into isolation and loneliness. Instead of having the age of sharing and socializing. Each and every individual is wanting to stay alone with their own solitude and loneliness. Monbiot recognizes this damaging effect on society and states that how much dangerous it is. To start off. Monbiot claims that we as humans are social beings and always will be “We were social creatures from the start,” by disagreeing with Thomas Hobbes’s claim on our human state of nature “of every man against every man.” Monbiot sees this idea of every person on their own an epidemic of loneliness in today’s age, and how it

being separated means being alone. This is true of every creature, and it is true of man