People sometimes go through periods in time when who you are does not matter. It is during these times that one might not know who he or she is. People, especially kids, go through phases in which they experiment with certain things to find out exactly who they are. Whether it?s the clothes you wear, the music you listen to or anything else that defines who you are, it might take you some time before you find the things that best defines you. Sometimes who you are might not be what others see as the ?norm,? it might not be what others want to see. Other people look upon you as if you were weird or different. At times, you might just be something you?re not. At times, you might be something you hate. At times, you might be someone trying to be something that you?re not. It?s human nature to categorize different things. Organization, the aesthetic need we all have, but on certain levels; controls us into segregation, the final result of organization. When you start to separate and segregate you turn things upside-down. No longer can you look at something how it is; you have to now compare it to something else. Segregation leads to isolation. In humans, isolation plays a big role in determining what you do or how you act.
When isolation begins to invade your life there are some keen consequences that occur, that might deter your life in the path wanted. Isolation and loneliness are important aspects of everyday life. The compassion of friendship is sometimes all you need to make it trough life. Through good times and bad times, the comfort of a friend will make it easy. In Of Mice and Men two characters, Crooks and Curley?s wife dealt with the hardships of loneliness and isolation. Moreover, the results of such loneliness and isolation can be devastating. Loneliness ties into almost all the main characters in the novel and what happens when they become lonely. Crooks states ???I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an? he gets sick.?? Crooks isolation and loneliness started when he was a young boy growing up in California. Crooks? family was the only African American family within ten miles of where he lived. Crooks grew up near white families who had lived near him, occasionally playing with the white children. Being the only African American boy in his town growing up has made him feel lonely. Sure he got to play with the white children every once and a while, but its not the same as playing with kids like you.
The Essay on George And Lennie Loneliness Crooks Companion
First published in 1937, Of Mice and Men is an American based novel by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two ranch hands that travel together, with George watching over the mentally inferior Lennie. When they start work at a new ranch, several different characters are introduced. One affliction that seems to face several characters is loneliness, created by factors such as the character s ...
Kids are often very aware of friendship. They want and need to feel as if they have some companionship. Crooks did not feel as if he fit in. Throughout his life he has felt alone, causing him to feel isolated. Crooks still feels like he is alone. ??And now there ain?t a colored man on this ranch an? there?s jus? one family in Soledad.?? Crooks resides within a worn-down shed that leans off the wall of the barn. Crooks is only permitted to sleep in the barn. Sleeping with the animals says a lot about the feelings given to African Americans during this time. There is one four-paned window on one side of the room, which provides most of the light during the day. Along the other wall is the doorway that led into the barn. A long box filled with straw provides a place for him to sleep. His room is about 5 feet by 5 feet and the floor covered with straw. Crooks has more possessions than any other man does on the ranch. He has been there for a while and had accumulated a lot of things. ?This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud, aloof man. He kept his distance and demanded other people kept theirs.? Crooks respects the views of others and in return he wants his views and opinions respected too.
He knows however, as long as he is black, his thoughts and words would not be taken seriously, sometimes not even taken at all. ??If I say something, why it?s just a nigger sayin? it.?? Because of Crooks? color, and because of the times, Crooks is not allowed to do many of the things that the other men do. The other men, being white, can occupy their time with many games and discussions. Crooks however, does not have that luxury, his options are somewhat narrowed. Play horseshoes or read books. ???Cause I?m black. They play cards in there, but I can?t play because I?m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.?? What Crooks really needs is the compassion of a friend. ??S?pose you didn?t have nobody. S?pose you couldn?t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ?cause you was black. How?d you like that? S?pose you had to sit out here an? read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain?t no good.?? Crooks? skin color disables him from being around many of the other men on the ranch. He must turn to books so as not to get lonely, but when that fails, he has no where else to go. Nothing would suit him more than someone to talk to, someone to share ideas with, and someone to play cards with.
The Essay on Curleys Wife Loneliness George Candy
Of Mice and Men I aint got no people, George said. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That aint no good. They dont have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get want in to fight all the time (41). A major theme in Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men is loneliness. The characters George, Lennie, Candy and Curleys wife each suffer from loneliness even though their isolation ...
??A guy needs somebody ?to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain?t got nobody. Don?t make a difference who the guy is, long?s he?s with you. I tell ya?, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an? he gets sick.?? Crooks does not stand up for himself; he doesn?t seem stand up for what he believes in. Curley?s wife tells Crooks, ??Listen, nigger, you know what I can do to you if you open your trap? You know what I could do??? Responding by apologizing, the only way Crooks knows how. Part of this is due to the current status of blacks during this era, but part of it is due to Crooks. ??Yes ma?am,? is how he responds. Crooks could have easily defended himself with words, but instead he is very plaintive. Crooks just takes what comes to him. Why didn?t Crooks stand up for himself? Crooks loneliness is making him self-conscious, almost to the point where all he does is apologize. Crooks? loneliness has only sent him further and further from the amiability of anybody on the ranch but himself. Living a isolated life is the result of such loneliness. Living without the common necessities of life can only result in destruction of oneself from the inside. With no one to talk to and no one to relate to, Crooks has isolated himself from the rest of the people on the ranch.
The Essay on Both Curley’s Wife and Crooks
Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” was set in the Great depression in 1930s America. The characters reflect the struggles and harsh times many working Americans faced in that era. Isolated, lonely, marginalised and mistrustful, people had to create new lives for themselves. In the novel Steinbeck describes several characters that are vulnerable due to the social context of that time; Crooks and ...
Crooks feels as if his loneliness is a disease. A disease in which has consumed him and will be the death of him. Curley?s wife is the quintessence of loneliness in this novel. Throughout the novel, Curley?s wife is referred to as ?Curley?s wife? and nothing else. As you read further, you begin to build a picture inside within your mind, one that shows Curley?s wife as being nothing but a lonely, desperate woman. This shows us the true nature of her character, labeling her as Curley?s wife. Steinbeck?s genius creates a character in a way that no words can, by not giving her a name. Curley?s wife really has no character, her loneliness and desperation eats away at her real personality. She has become Curley?s wife through years of loneliness and solitude. ??Sure I gotta husban?, you all seen him. Swell guy, ain?t he? Spends all his time sayin? what he?s gonna do to guys he don?t like, and he don?t like nobody. Think I?m gonna stay in that two-by-four house and listen how Curley?s gonna lead with his left twict, and then bring in the ol? right cross???? Curley?s wife doesn?t want to stay in her small house and listen to what her pugnacious husband wants to do. She needs to voice her opinion as well.
Expressing oneself is a need, one that will help you cope with the problems. If her husband will not talk to her, she needs to find someone that will. Instead of waiting for her husband to come home, she runs around looking him. She will only see Curley once he has completed his day at work; and that is too long for her to go without talking to someone. Generally, she is trying to find someone to talk to. Loneliness is plaguing Curley?s wife so much that walks around all day just looking for conversation. Curley?s wife is a lonely soul; she has no one to talk to and no one to share her happiness with. She makes an earnest attempt at starting up conversation. She does not like to stay in her tiny house all day; she wants to get out and talk, that?s how lonely she is. ??Well, I ain?t giving you no trouble. Think I don?t like to talk to somebody ever? once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time? ?? Making trouble on the ranch is what Curley?s wife does best. She also makes trouble with almost all of the men on the ranch. The men on the ranch say she?s has the ?eye.? ??Well ? she got the eye?.I seen her give Slim the eye?.I seen her give Slim the eye. Curley never seen it.
The Term Paper on Critisism on Curleys Wife
For Of Mice and Men is a Tragedy, a tragedy not in the narrow modern sense of a mere ‘sad story’ (though it certainly is that), but a tragedy in the classic Aristotelian/Shakespearean sense of showing humanity’s achievement of greatness through and in spite of defeat. Some people seem to believe that the function of literature is to provide vicarious “happy endings,” ...
An? I seen her give Carlson the eye.?? Curley?s wife tries to entice conversation by using her looks. Giving men the ?eye? might get her someone to talk to. She would have no one to talk to if she just stayed inside her house all day. It is for this that she leaves and makes trouble with the men. She is so lonely that she goes out at starts something with other people so she can have someone to talk to. Isolation she does not like, and isolation she avoids. But as she says, all she wants to do is talk. ??I get lonely, you can talk to people but I can?t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How?d you like not to talk to anybody??? Curley?s wife has a dream, one that which will never come true. She wants to be an actress. After having met someone who told her it was possible she has become obsessed with it. She met a man who told her that he worked in Hollywood. This man said that he would get her some work as an actress as soon as he got back to Hollywood. A letter would come and explain all she could do so that her dream would come true. However, he didn?t write, he wasn?t associated with any Hollywood in anyway. Nevertheless she is not complacent; she still thinks of herself as a good actress and still thinks that she could have made it.
???Nother time I met a guy, an? he was in pitcher?.He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon?s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write me about it. I never did get that letter.?? Loneliness has consumed her so much that she still holds onto this dream of becoming an actress. Needing something to hold on to, she grasps the idea of her as an actress. She knows that it will never come true, but she wants to hold on to an idea, a dream. Curley?s wife is void, she is nothing and she has nothing to gain. Causing tribulation and trouble throughout the novel point out that, Curley?s wife?s purpose is a metaphor. Sequestered is no way to go throughout life. Being isolated and desperate can lead to outlandish actions. Ultimately the result of Curley?s wife is death. Dying due to the result of her needing to feel something that she could not give herself: compassion and love. The hardships of isolation and loneliness are n
The Essay on Curleys Wife Info
She went to Riverside dance palace with an actor, the man said he would put her in movies, because she was a natural and write to her when he got back to Hollywood – never got the letter shows she is naive as she thinks that he was actually going to write to her also shows she wanted more out of life than what she was restricted to, because she believes she had talent from the compliments ...
