Mice And Men

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English coursework: who is the loneliest character in of mice and men?

The novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ is basically about two characters that travel together, Lennie and George. They settle down at a ranch for work. Together they hope to pursue their American dream. It follows up on various other men at the ranch, and issues faced during the time of the American depression.
‘Of Mice and Men’ is set in the fictional town of Soledad, in southern California, situated on the Salinas River. Steinbeck set the different scenes from his own knowledge as he worked at a ranch himself. The first chapter is set beside the river with Lennie and George hiding from some people, while the main part of the novel is focused at the ranch. The final scene takes place were the journey started.
The novel is mainly evolves around the misfit characters but also involving others who make the story more realistic. Men during the American depression laboured at ranches having no family or no relationship with woman. The only place they had a physical relationship was at a brothel. Throughout the novel the men threat the only woman at the ranch as if she is alien to them. Perhaps because of curlys wife’s seductive attitude.

Steinbeck shows that most of the characters are uneducated by the using colloquial language, for example ‘they come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head’. Steinbeck also makes use of colours and sounds to describe his characters, such as the Curly’s wife who is linked with the colour red ‘her fingernails were red; she wore a cotton house dress and red mules’. Steinbeck also based his novel in Soledad meaning loneliness in Spanish, a key theme in the novel.
Steinbeck also refers to Lennie as an animal, ‘dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws’, because his muscular body and animal like behaviour.

Lennie and George’s relations...