Of Mice and Men – Levels of Loneliness

Consider each character in ‘Of Mice and Men’. Think about how lonely they are. Highlight the meter for each character. The more loneliness symbols you
highlight, the lonelier the character. Explain your decision behind each level of loneliness and then find a quotation from the text to back up your opinion.

Character Loneliness Level Explanation Quotation

For George I think that he is lonely because he had lost Guys like us who work on
all friends and lost contact from weed and now being
introduced to the ranch he hasn’t got very good starts ranches are the lonliest guys
George with friendships, and really the only people that I think in the world
he has a ok relationship with is Slim and Lennie

I see Lennie as being friends with George and also with I never get to talk to
people at the ranch, he has not really made a bad or
good expression of himself as he has not really talked, nobody, im awfully lonely
Lennie and in his eyes I think he sees all the people as a lot of
people for friends

Slim is very well known, 1 reason being he is good at Hell of a nice fella
his job which could imply that he may have been at the
ranch for a very long time, another reason is that he
Slim may lead a certain group which could also get him with
more friendships

Candy seems to be really old and And they give me two

doesn’t have a really important job so I hundred and fifty dollars
Candy wouldn’t see him as very well known or because I lost a hand
very spoken off
Curly is the bosses son so I would Unable to emotionally
expect for people to forcingly talk to connect with anyone on the
Curley him happily as they obviously don’t ranch
want to make a bad impression to the
boss
Curlys wife I put as not very lonely as I get lonely
we are to think that she likes to hang
Curley’s out with other men so that might not
Wife make her lonely