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Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice Of Men

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John Steinbeck's novel is about two men that get into an altercation with a lady and have to go out of town and start a new life. In Of Mice of Men, he uses foreshadowing in several ways to illustrate loneliness through the title, his character’s desires, and the character’s conflicts. Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie's loneliness through his title. To a Mouse by Robert Burns edited in 1785 is about a mouse that dies alone and sad /. Lennie is a symbol of that mouse because even though Lennie had George all this time at the end he died alone and sad. Steinbeck uses foreshadow in "A little piece of land" when he says "I seen hundreds of men come by on road an' on the ranches, with bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their

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