Essay about Lonliness and Friendship in Of Mice And Men

Several characters throughout the novella disclose that they have had hopes or have been lonely at one point. For example, Curley’s wife reveals that she wanted to be a movie star, but is now stuck in an unhappy marriage to Curley. She states that she “ ‘coulda made somethin' of myself.’ " (5.34). She had hopes and dreams, and it was those very same fantasies that led her to move away from everyone she loved. In her marriage she reveals that she is lonely, and this leads readers to believe that she goes around the ranch flirting with other men because she is isolated from everybody else. Moreover, George reveals that he is also lonely, even though he has Lennie as a companion. Lennie and George’s dream of owning a farm isolates them because they move around so much to get money. In addition, George does not realize it, but the only reason he keeps Lennie around is because he wants a friend so badly that he is willing to take a mentally disabled man. Furthermore, this is shown when George talks about if he was alone he could live more easily. Lennie rebukes this idea by saying that he could move elsewhere, and George perks up saying he was joking around and “I want you to stay with me." (1). George complains about how his life could be, but he knows he cannot be completely alone and wants someone with him. In the novel, mostly all the characters are so desperate not to be isolated, that they take anyone to be a companion, even if it makes them more isolated than before.

Lennie and George are two men who have high hopes of the perfect “American dream. Yet, Lennie keeps doing “bad things” thats stopping them from achieving their dreams. The American dream the men are trying to achieve is they would like to own a farm with rabbits, cows, chickens, a house, and most importantly them being together. I do not believe the dream is achievable, because Lennie doesn’t understand right from wrong in many of the situations throughout the book.

George has to get Lennie out of many innocent but bad situations. They have to travel a lot of because of his actions. At times George would get really annoyed with Lennie and calling him cruel names. George told Lennie continuously that his life would be easier without

Friendship is excessively crucial for all people. The ability to live a delighted life is not achievable without friendship. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, he represents the true interpretation of companionship. Throughout the novel, two friends named George and Lennie experience many distinctive events with and without friendship depicting the sincere definition of friendship. New characters are constantly introduced with their experiences of isolation to confirm the meaning of friendship such as Crooks, a lonely African-American man who is constantly segregated and Curley’s wife who is constantly feeling solitary and desires attention. Over unique events throughout the novel, John Steinbeck’s message about friendship is that

Lennie needs George for essential survival and without him, unfortunately he would not live very long. Due to Lennie's disability, he keeps on doing terrible things, because of this, he always depends upon George to ensure him and get him out of inconvenience. George keeps Lennie in great health, making beyond any doubt that what he eats and drink is good for him. “Lennie! Lennie for god sakes don't drink so much”... “I ain’t sure it’s good water”. (Steinbeck 3) This quote shows that George is telling him that the water you're wanting to drink is not pure, which shows George cares for his well-being and also playing a fatherly role. In their relationship, George does nearly all the talking to other individuals as Lennie never truly gets what is going on and isn't very savvy. When George and Lennie are talking to the boss, George tells Lennie to not say a single word because he could have possibly ruin everything. Without George, Lennie would never have any employment and would have never lived long. "But not us! An' why? Because… because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." (Steinbeck 14) Lennie may not be firm on his statement, but he still understands that friendship means sticking together, and in that case all his basic

George’s caring trait is presented when the narrator describes how George tells Lennie what is right and what is wrong. When George and Lennie stop to set up camp for the night on their way to a new ranch, Lennie bends down and drinks from a pond in which George tells Lennie, “ ‘Lennie!’ he said sharply. ‘Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink so much.’ Lennie continued to snort into the pool. The small man leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. ‘Lennie. You gonna be sick like you was last night.’ ” (Steinbeck, 3). George’s caring personality is presented by the way he yells at Lennie when he drinks out of the pond. George shows that he cares for Lennie because he does not want Lennie to get sick again like he was last night, “You gonna be sick like you was last night”. The fact that George tells Lennie this displays that Lennie is worried about George and shows he cares about how Lennie feels. George demonstrates his caring trait in many ways by showing that Lennie needs him and he in some ways needs Lennie. When George is explaining the life they will have on their new ranch to Lennie interrupts, “Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.” (Steinbeck, 14). After all that George has done for Lennie in the past, Lennie realizes that he can count on George to be there for him. This shows the special connection

The theme of loneliness is shown in Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curly's wife. These four characters feel loneliness from not having someone there for them at all times. When George is gone Lennie has nobody. Lennie and George are always together so when George leaves Lennie feels lonely. For example, when George goes to the another ranch to work. Crooks is lonely because he has no wife. For example, Crooks is an older man so he has a harder time to get around and to welcome people in. Candy is a one handed lonely man who only has a job because of when he first worked its two hands. Candy is the old man swamper who is lonely because he has no company. For example, Candy lives with nobody. He only attends the cattle when needed. He has no other

George and lennie have a dream, a dream to live by their own rules and live under a roof that isn't controlled by somebody else besides them. Their dream includes land and on the land a house, chickens, crop fields and lennies favorite the rabbits that he cannot wait to tend.

George always takes care of Lennie and gets him out of trouble but never gets anything in return. “God a’mighty if I was alone I could live so easy, I could get a job an’ no trouble” (Steinbeck 11). George states that without Lennie in his life he could do and live so much better. Lennie is holding George back instead of pushing him for his best. “Whatever we aint got thats what you want” (Steinbeck 11). Lennie is always asking more of George even though George tries his best to do and get all he can for Lennie. Lennie doesn’t appreciate all that George is doing for him. After all that George

Throughout the rest of the book they look out for each other. They also work together to try and achieve the “American Dream”. They have always wanted their own place and Lennie had always wanted to tend the rabbits. They then find a job on a ranch. There they meet many other men. George and Lennie both meet Curley and his wife. Curley is their boss. Curley’s wife might be pretty and all but George and Lennie did not want to get into ay trouble with his wife. George tells Lennie not try and touch her and stuff so they wouldn have to run again. George had his mind set to working and getting the money he needs for his own place.

George and Lennie's big dream was to buy a piece of land and live far away from people and have rabbits and a vegetable patch. “Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that, George." This dream gave them a reason to work and give them hope that there is a happily ever after. They worked every day to save up money and achieve there goal. In order for Lennie and George to live up to there dream and for it to work they needed each other. The American society at the time had major signs of segregation between the rich and poor, such as uneven distribution of wealth. Lennie and George were both poor they were not getting such a high pay rate but that did not stop them. If it meant they have to work at the ranch for years to achieve there goal they would. If Lennie and George did not have each other it would of took twice as long to make the money to achieve there dream or there dream might not have even been to own a land. There friendship is what kept them going and why they haven’t gave up on there dream. Despite all the difference between Lennie and George they still had the strongest

The relationship between George and Lennie is that they are really nice with each other because of all these reasons. My fist reason that I found in paragraph Three is that they are friend because they tell each other stories and things. Another thing that I found in the text is that they always have each others back with anything that happened to one another. also another thing is that in paragraph nine George imagined that they are going to have a little house with acres and with some cows and some pigs. Something else that I found in the text is that they provide each other with different things like George provides Lennie with food and water and Lennie provides George with helping and telling him to keep living life and not to quit to keep

George took on the role of a caretaker for his friend Lennie who had the mindset of a five year old. He was one of the only people in Lennie’s world that showed him compassion. Although George’s love for Lennie sometimes came off as being harsh he always had Lennie’s best interest at heart. This was truly an act of pure kindness coming from George and it builds his character to be somewhat heroic. George’s life would have been so much easier if he didn’t have to care for Lennie. Lennie was a hard worker. He was strong and had a good heart but lacked social skills and common sense which landed him in some hot water with others, and this being the cause for the men to keep moving. This made George’s life difficult but he continued to be the one person Lennie could count on because he knew that Lennie would be lost without him and because Lennie was loyal and loved him as well. There wasn’t anything that Lennie would not have done for George and George knew that.

In the book Of Mice and Men, we meet the two friends George and Lennie. George Milton; a small man with sharp features, a strict and worn out look on his face, a mind making him as clever as a fox and which gives min the upper hand in any situation, where he can easily find a way out or a solution. Lennie Small, a man who does not quite living up to his name suited for a small man: He is tall, with broad shoulders, strong arms, with shapeless features; creating an innocent look on his face. Underneath it all lives a man with the mind of a child, who does not realize his own strength and sometimes acts irrationally: A complete opposite to his partner in crime, George.

    Lennie’s young and child-like mind makes him one of the most unusual characters as he has such a big figure, yet his obsession with puppies and tending the rabbits makes him more like a young boy than a grown man. Lennie’s innocence makes him a good companion to travel with as his clean heart rubs off on George, a small man who enjoys being alone. Lennie gets George to start opening about himself and his dream. In the first part of the story, we find out that “Why he’d  do any damn thing I tol’ him. If I tol’ him to walk over a cliff he’d go”(40). We see a strict loyalty to only George as he tells Slim about Lennie’s disability. We see how easy it was, back then, to manipulate “disabled” people and control them to follow your commands. However, not only does Lennie follow George’s commands, because of his child-like mind, he acts like a young baby to George. “ ‘You drink some, George. You take a good big drink.’ He smiled happily” (3). Because of the way Lennie’s mind thinks,