The theme of loneliness features throughout many scenes in Of Mice and Men and is often the dominant theme of sections during this story. This theme occurs during many circumstances but is not present from start to finish. In my mind for a theme to be pervasive is must be present during every element of the story. There are many themes that are present most of the way through such as sacrifice, friendship and comradship. But in my opinion there is only one theme that is present from beginning to end, this theme is pursuit of dreams.

There are many characters where lonliness is evident throughout parts or all of their life. But all of these characters who appear to be lonely only tend to play a minor role in the story. This is not to say that they are insignificant but they help to convey the feelings and emotions that surround the major characters rather than their own. Characters like Curley's wife and Crooks are unmistakably lonely, but they show how their lonliness is the opposite of the two main characters, George and Lennie. Crooks actually states th

I think that the theme of pursuing dreams is present during every element in Of Mice and Men and we can go as far to say that 'pursuit of dreams' is the predominant theme of this story. Lonliness may very well be a pervading theme but only as an aspect of a much broader theme. Every one these individualswho had unrealistic dreams had very lonely portion

In my opinion there is only one theme that can be described as pervasive to the story: the pursuit of a dream. Or more correctly the pursuit of an unrealistic dream.

Curley's wife dreamt of being a movie star, but when she was young her mother forbade her to pursue this career and as an alternative she married Curley. She loved attention and as she was lacking it, she constantly wandered about the farm asking for trouble. Then one day she got it, both hers and Lennie's dreams were shattered as soon as Lennie had killed her. But it went further than that, Candy's dreams of living on the farm with George and Lennie were crushed even though he was not involved in the incident. Because of one person's fault many people's dreams were destroyed. The characters in Of Mice and Men have helped to show that unrealistic dreams more often than not will cause tradgedies.

at George and Lennie have got each other but he hasn't got anyone. Curley's wife portrays the same message but under differ

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