I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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"I ain't got no people," George said. "I seen the guys that go around on the ranches

alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They

get wantin' 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 Curley's wife each suffer from

loneliness even though their isolation varied.

The old swamper Candy, was destroyed by isolation as a result of two main factors,

one being his disability and the other being his age. For example, throughout the book the

reader finds the farmhands out bucking the barley while Candy is left behind to sweep and



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Approximate Word count = 492
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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